The Flight Of The Bumble-Bee

Rimsky-Korsakov's The Flight Of The Bumble-Bee 

~ Yuja Wang

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844~1908)

Yuja Wang (b.1987)

Gvidon goes down from the shore into the sea. Out from the sea flies a bumblebee, whirling around the Swan-Bird.. SWAN-BIRD : Well, now, my bumblebee, go on a spree, catch up with the ship on the sea, go down secretly, get deep into a crack. Good luck, Gvidon, fly, only do not stay long! (The bumblebee flies away.) ~ An orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his Opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1899~1900). The magical Swan-Bird transforms Prince Gvidon into a Bumble-Bee so that he can fly away to visit his father..