Rimsky Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee 

RIP the violinists. Or anyone trying to play this on piano.

this perfectly captures the feeling when you see a bee or a wasp

Yall kids today don't even know how banger this was in the 1800's

The old Tom and Jerry episodes be like ;

*If you can play it slowly you can play it quickly*

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Credit to the person who recorded this all those centuries ago. Wouldnt have had the opportunity to witness such a masterpiece without their dedication.

Korsakov never fails to leave the audience buzzing

I always have thought the composer when he was creating this he was playing a different thing with the orchestra and a bumblebee then appeared and attacked him and he defended himself with the baton and everyone plays what he's instructing

Asian parent: "Now play it backwards."

Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков был морским офицером, а музыкальное образование получил дома. Почти композитор - самоучка. Любовь к музыке и бесспорный талант победили)

Ever since I was a baby, my mom would always play this for me, and I would be knocked out cold. Just enjoying memories while I can 🥲

Set speed x2. Flight of the wasps

All I see is a row of violinists playing this and one by one they keep falling down out of exhaustion, and the other violinists still playing start to sweat and watch their dying friends with the corner of their eyes. All this while the conductor is shaking his arms violently and is completely dissociative.

As someone who is deeply scared of insects, I can tell that this piece gives me an intense feeling of anxiety when well executed

What an incredible masterpiece of pure genius.

0:00 : homework is due tomorrow morning 0:50 : homework is due in a few hrs 1:03 : homework is due next session 1:23 : next session starts in a few minutes 1:36 : have to reach class early to finish homework 1:52 : rushes through school to reach class that’s on the other side 2:00 : reaches classroom 2:23 : quickly starts writing 40 pg essay 2:43 : everyone arrives in class 2:50 : teacher says to hand in their homework 2:54 : teacher is almost near you 3:07 : quickly starts to write the last paragraph 3:20 : hands in homework

This is the stereotypical "I'm good at playing my instrument" song.

I'm not into classical music much but l must admit this is a work of pure genius! Ahead of its time wow !!!

After having to hear all of the sacrilege, it's nice to hear how the piece is _supposed_ to sound. It perfectly captures the hum of a bee's wings, and it's really a beautiful piece.

when your trying to catch up on school notes that are about to be erased from the board

When you're doing an 8 mark question with 3 minutes left

Lots of cartoons just love using this score. A character stumbles onto a bee hive and then gets chased by an angry swarm who sting his butt as he runs!

I’ve always appreciated how this literally almost sounded like bees with how frantic they’re flying around and buzzing. I remember watching Little Einstein’s with this playing. It gives me anxiety I do not like bees 😂

2:41 When the toilet water starts to rise

These jokes are a pain in the beehind.

This tune is more recognizable in the world of heavy metal... More than you know it. Speaks volumes, about it.

Thank you for the FULL version of "Flight Of The Bumblebee". So many times you only get the 1-2 minute version.

As a great violinist who plays every note in perfect tune once said: “If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly.”

This perfectly sums up the feeling in the moment when: You thought you killed a fly But that fly was actually a bee... ...and it’s still alive

Wow! This person must be an expert at the piano. He plays it without looking or touching it! I'm impressed!

Its crazy how many people come back to this song even after 14 years since it's release!

When you're doing hw in front of the teacher when he/she is collecting

Damn, like look at Korsakov, he's just finished the symphony in one take and now he's just chillin'.

The puns on this thread are simply unbee-lievable...lol

Bumblebees are soooo adorable! 😄😄😄

We need a game "Violin Hero" with this melody at final level.

The moment when the cockroach starts flying...

"How I envy the simple live of the tribesfolk... living in harmony with the mother nature, the noble boar, the humble bumblebee... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

To the person who said "I always have thought the composer when he was creating this he was playing a different thing with the orchestra and a bumblebee then appeared and attacked him and he defended himself with the baton and everyone plays what he's instructing": That happened once in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Bugs was conducting, and when a fly landed on his nose, he tried to swat it away, making the orchestra play like crazy for a few seconds. As to how Rimsky-Korsakov composed this piece, it was part of his opera, The Tale of Tsar Sultan, where the characters are tormented by a bumblebee. He visualized the mood expertly.

This was probably equivalent to "Through the fire and flames" back then lol.

I swear, my teacher played this song in class and it forced me to do 2 things. 1. panic more and 2. write faster

Where getting out of the bee hive with this one🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Such DELIGHTFUL music. I literally see a movie in my mind. Love

When you trying to solve to solve the last problem on the math test

If you can play it slowly you can play it quickly #15notesasecond

That scene from Little Witch Academia where Akko was chasing after the Cupid bee while Andrew was playing this song on piano was one of the most beautiful uses of this song that I’ve seen XD

Amazing composition. And that clarinet is mesmerizing

This better bee really damn good.

the problem about these types of musics is that you cant just memorize one phrase and search it on youtube.

Beautiful... I cannot express in words what I feel when I listen this.

This is the first time ive heard someone capture so perfectly the feeling of panic you get when theres an unidentified flying insect suddenly buzzing around your head

My sister said she will only pick up her toys if i play music. I put on the “clean up song”, and it didn’t work” she said she only cleans as fast as the song she’s listening to... so I turned this on and the living room was finished by the middle of the song

Me:” thank god April is over, May couldn’t be that bad.” *Giant murder hornets arrived to US*

I heard this when I was like, 7 years old, because my adopted mom loved listening to the classical music station on the radio. I almost forgot the name of it. Glad I found it again. This is a piece of childhood for me. It was in one of my dreams once. A large hornet was flying through liquid, trying to eat me. Good times.

This is my favorite piece from Rimsky Korsakov!!

I'd get exhausted running away from bees that long.

I can't beelieve it took me this long to find the name of this song

Buzz buzz I feel just like a bee listening to this composition. It’s extremely relaxing and brings out your imagination.

I quit playing the piano forever when asked in concert to do this followed by Sabre Dance. They are the most complicated fast pieces ever done-and today's orchestras can not play these pieces--they have to simplify them--so thanks for saving rare magic forever.

When Your phone is on 1%

TETRIS BATTLE ROYALE

I Looove Flight of the Bumblebee, and I love the Classics too.

this piece is what constantly goes through my mind everytime someone asks me whats wrong

This is honestly one of the best comment sections on a RU-vid video ever

I cannot beelive how fast those people can play instruments

Can’t wait for the next album

Amazing, brilliant, timeless TALENT

I can imagine how chaotic it would be to sight-read the music score for the first time....

Ah, the bum of the flightlebee!

Slow Down! Do you have any idea how fast you were going ?

*Geniuses are born, not created.*

Step 1.) Open this song Step 2.) Put on 2 speed Step 3.) ??? Step 4.) Profit

"If you can play it slow you can play it fast" **Plays at 2x speed**

This reminds me of my dad

Люто валит

Unbeeleavable

when you're writing the essay for the SAT with five minutes left

I've seen a lot of bumblees and never have they flown/sounded so fast and chaotic. Bumblebees fly super slow and calm-like.

Always been a nature lover. From an early age, I can recall looking through a book on wild animals, we had in the house, that had everything from Beatles to Buffalo, and even Bumblebees. My favorite big cat was the Tiger, and I couldn't help noticing the way Bee's shared that black/yellowish orange tone. So I found them intriguing. Of course after finding out just how important they are to the ecosystem, they gained even more respect. So whenever I hear this piece, my mind envisions a busy little colony in a field of radiant blossoms, buzzing around, doing what Bee's have done for millions of years. Thank You little friends. And thank you Nikolai. 💪🏼😆👍🏼🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 💐🌹🌺🏵️🌷🌹💐🌻 🎶🎶🎶🎻🎶🎶🎶🎶🎹

Teacher : Why are you laughing ? Me : Nothing. My brain : Elon Muskito

Put the speed to 1.5 and you will actually hear a bumblebee

Great imagination, masterful and beautiful !💐💐💐

high standard in performing classical music... 🎵🎻🎶 greetings from Mexico City!

I can almost hear the buzzing.

this music is a masterpiece. beeutiful

Magnífico 😭👏👏👏👏

Perfect

I listened to so many sacrilegious versions that I forgot how beautiful is the well played version

Funny, when I first heard this piece as a kid I always thought it sounded like some angry bee chasing somebody. Later I learned that it's indeed named "Flight of the Bumblebee".

2:41 When it's 3am and the microwave is about to reach 0

One of the final bosses of the violin.

When tomorrow is the first day of school and you realized... You didn't do your 10 pages essay...

NO NOT THE BEE'S AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!

2020 and still bumping this absolute banger

Lyrics: A bumblebee is any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae, one of the bee families. This genus is the only extant group in the tribe Bombini, though a few extinct related genera (e.g., Calyptapis) are known from fossils. They are found primarily in higher altitudes or latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, although they are also found in South America, where a few lowland tropical species have been identified. European bumblebees have also been introduced to New Zealand and Tasmania. Female bumblebees can sting repeatedly, but generally ignore humans and other animals. Most bumblebees are social insects that form colonies with a single queen. The colonies are smaller than those of honey bees, growing to as few as 50 individuals in a nest. Cuckoo bumblebees are brood parasitic and do not make nests or form colonies; their queens aggressively invade the nests of other bumblebee species, kill the resident queens and then lay their own eggs, which are cared for by the resident workers. Cuckoo bumblebees were previously classified as a separate genus, but are now usually treated as members of Bombus. Bumblebees have round bodies covered in soft hair (long branched setae) called 'pile', making them appear and feel fuzzy. They have aposematic (warning) coloration, often consisting of contrasting bands of colour, and different species of bumblebee in a region often resemble each other in mutually protective Müllerian mimicry. Harmless insects such as hoverflies often derive protection from resembling bumblebees, in Batesian mimicry, and may be confused with them. Nest-making bumblebees can be distinguished from similarly large, fuzzy cuckoo bumblebees by the form of the female hind leg. In nesting bumblebees, it is modified to form a pollen basket, a bare shiny area surrounded by a fringe of hairs used to transport pollen, whereas in cuckoo bumblebees, the hind leg is hairy all round, and they never carry pollen. Like their relatives the honeybees, bumblebees feed on nectar, using their long hairy tongues to lap up the liquid; the proboscis is folded under the head during flight. Bumblebees gather nectar to add to the stores in the nest, and pollen to feed their young. They forage using colour and spatial relationships to identify flowers to feed from. Some bumblebees steal nectar, making a hole near the base of a flower to access the nectar while avoiding pollen transfer. Bumblebees are important agricultural pollinators, so their decline in Europe, North America, and Asia is a cause for concern. The decline has been caused by habitat loss, the mechanisation of agriculture, and pesticides.

You know, composers hear and play with the music first in their head and then write it down. Imagine him sitting with this tune in his head like in the picture. It is probably what he did most of the day.

Whats with all these shitty puns comment section, beehave yourself Its really bugging me

I am so glad I found this song. I have been looking everywhere for this, but I never know what the name of it was. I found a cartoon episode that had this music, but only for a short bit, but eventually, I was able to find this. I wanted to use the song last night when I was chasing a fly, but again I'm grateful I found this.

I have always love the Flight of the Bumble Bee but this one is so amazing and no one can play like this orchestra!