Remember Liam O’Connor, the Irish button accordionist who set the Guinness record for “Fastest Fingers in the World” last year? I’d like to see him go up against Alexander Dmitriev, shown here performing Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” on the bayan (a Russian chromatic accordion). My fingers got tangled up just watching it.
Flight of the (Accordion) Bumblebee
Posted June 4th, 2007 in Videos · 3 Comments
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3 Comments:
This guy’s really something else, isn’t he….
by mister anchovy on June 6th, 2007
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by Sylvie Jamet on June 7th, 2007
Yeah, he’s incredible. If you’re interested in other accordion renditions, the Legends of the Accordion compilation from a few years back had JoAnn Castle’s “Bumble Bee Boogie” which starts with “Flight of the Bumblebee” before seguing into something more jazzy.
by Chris on June 7th, 2007