There is probably no other piece of music than the Hummelflug by Nikolai Rimskij-Korsakow, which is so striking and programmatic and has been adapted for all instruments or music groups. In just one minute, the piece brings a smile to the listener's face.

Composed around 1900 as an interlude to the third act of his opera The Tale of the Tsar Saltan, it soon gained great popularity, as does the international double bass ensemble BASSIONA AMOROSA, to whose repertoire it has belonged for many ye...