Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight Of The Bumblebee

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 1908) was a prolific composer of orchestral works and many other forms of music including chamber works and art songs. He also wrote many operas excerpts from which are featured in this collection.Contents include the famous orchestral interlude The Flight Of The Bumblebee as well as the suite from The Tale Of Tsar Saltan. This fanciful opera was based on Alexander Pushkin's poem 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan'. Additional selections include the suite fromanother work inspired by Pushkin's poetry The GoldenCockerel a controversial satire of the disastrous events of the tsarist regime. Nikolai Gogol's Evenings On A Farm Near Dikana served as a basis for Christmas Eve a tale of magical doings on Christmas Eve. The final piece is Dubinushka Op.62 a work rooted in a song the composer overheard protesters singing during the 1905 revolution. Musicians and music lovers will appreciate this inexpensive collection of works all reproduced from authoritative sources.

Concert Piece after Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov-The popular Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is a welcome opportunity for every musician to demonstrate his or her technical skills. The Russian composer-pianist Alexander Rosenblatt composed a virtuoso Piano arrangement of the famous theme which moves masterfully back and forth between jazz and classical music thus being a 'cross-over' work: bebop (a jazz style from the 1940s and 1950s) is added to 'Bumblebee' which makes this work not only an amusing play on words ('Bumble-Bee-Bop') but also a virtuoso concert piece which ought to be enjoyable for both performers and listeners alike.

Arranged for Brass Quintet by Brandon Ridenour-A great showy encore piece for the advanced quintet recorded by the Canadian Brass.