Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow

Written by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1899 for his opera The Tale Of Tsar Saltan, this famous theme closes Act III, Tableau 1, when one of the characters (Prince Saltanovich, the Tsar's son) is change...

The famous themes from this orchestral masterpiece have been collected and arranged for solo trumpet. Included in this mini suite are the principal melodies from The Sea and Sinbad's Ship and The Youn...

This arrangement opens with open sections of quiet 'bumblebees' (cup muted trumpets) with an number of trumpets playing orchestral excerpts. These are at the discretion of the players and can range fr...

Transcription : Henri Vachey

Flight of the Bumble Bee from the opera 'The Legend of Tsar Saltan' based on a text by Pushkin is, without doubt, the best-known work in the oeuvre of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1906). The musical...