Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble Bee

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These high-quality piano accompaniment tracks help make practising more effective and enjoyable! They are recorded by a professional accompanist and can help you keep in tune and in time, as you play along to the piano part for this work.

Flight of the Bumble Bee is just a short orchestral interlude in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, but the 90-second piece has taken on a life of its own, mostly as a showpiece demonstration of virtuosity. It consists of a perpetual string of semiquavers, often played at breakneck speed! This version is for flute and piano in A minor.

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This practice version slows down the quicker sections of the 'performance' track above, by around 15-20%. It is included for free with that version if selected.