Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Flight of the bumblebee (Starters for Ten #78) 8/10 (8)

Starters for Ten 2019 – 78: Top Ten Classical pieces: 190319

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Flight of the bumblebee (1899-1900)

Throughout 2019 Jem of Jemtunes is taking you through 36 top tens and one top five. Tunes for a whole gamut of reasons including genre, mood, time of year or simply time itself. Sometimes there’s be words but mostly it’ll simply be the music. Because music always speaks for itself.

Continuing the 8th, running between 12th and 21st March and featuring my top ten classical pieces, here’s Flight of the Bumblebee, an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera ‘The Tale of Tsar Saltan’, composed in 1899–1900.