Flutist Maxim Rubtsov plays “Flight of the Bumblebee“

Recently at Blue Griffin Studio Maxim Rubtsov, prinicipal flutist of the Russian National Orchestra (founded by Mikhail Pletnev), spent several days recording a CD that will be released in August 2011. We call the CD “Russian Romance.“ It includes such favorites as Rachmaninoff’s Vocalize, Alabyev’s Nightingale and many other Russian gems arranged for flute and piano. Here’s an excerpt in which Maxim plays Rimsky-Korsakov’s famous Flight of the Bumblebee--in less than a minute. Sergei Kvitko, produc