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Flight of the Bumblebee by Canadian Brass

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JeffC

On February 23, 2018

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Flight of the Tuba Bee

By Canadian Brass

Cover of

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Полёт шмеля {Polot shmelya}

Written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Completeness

100%
Language
(instrumental)
Release
The Essential Canadian Brass

The Essential Canadian Brass

Release date
1991
Label
Philips Classics
Catalog number
432 571-2
Format
Album CD
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Additional comments and sources

Sources used: discogs, youtube.


Discogs lists this as a compilation. Canadian Brass has played "Tuba Bee" for many years (their sheet music for the song is copyrighted 1979, with the arrangement credited to Howard Cable), so there may be an earlier release but I've not found one.


In the 1980s, James Galway (the flautist) jokingly claimed he could play "Flight of the Bumblebee" faster than Charles Daellenbach, CB's tuba player, could. Daellenbach (b.1945) accepted the challenge. As a result, CB sometimes has played the song (more or less) straight, as in the submitted performance, and sometimes played incredibly fast, with comedic "business" during the performance. (There are lots of youtube clips of live performances.)



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History

Comment by Tar Heel
2020-09-01 06:19:08 UTC

Looks to be an earlier release but a later submission than:

https://secondhandsongs.com/submission/48233


All I could readily find:

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan - The Flight of the Tuba Bee · Canadian Brass


The Essential Canadian Brass

℗ 1991 Universal International Music B.V.

Released on: 1991-01-01

Producer: Hein Dekker

Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Arranger, Work Arranger: Howard Cable


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Last updated by Tar Heel on 2020-09-01 06:21:23 UTC - Show original message