A 12-year-old pianist played Flight of the Bumblebee...
... at 325bpm – and Twitter went mad for it... By Maddy Shaw Roberts 6K A young Indian pianist appeared on The World’s Best, and impressed everyone with a prestissimo rendition of ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’. Lydian Nadhaswaram, a 12-year-old pianist from Chennai, India played three versions of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ’s ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’, at increasingly fast metronome markings. He played the piece at its original marking (160bpm), before challenging himself to play it at 208bpm and 325bpm. His performance, broadcast on TV talent competition The World’s Best, impressed judges Drew Barrymore, RuPaul and Faith Hill, as well as host James Corden. Lydian Nadhaswaram is from Chennai, India. Picture: The World's Best ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ is a notoriously difficult piece of music which the composer wrote as an orchestral interlude for his opera, The Tale of Tsar Saltan . It is meant ...