Flight of the Bumblebee

Rimsky-Korsakov's interlude

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adjust the bows on her twin-tailed plaits and begin to play “Flight of the Bumblebee” (“Again…”)

Rimsky-Korsakov wrote it as an orchestral interlude for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan. Here, the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Waldbühne, 1997.