This is the title song from Gretchaninoff's cycle of children's songs entitled The Honeybee, opus 66. A lively piano accompaniment that darts and dances, much like a bee, works below vocal lines
In his opus 55, Reinhold Gliere creates two quintessentially Romantic part songs featuring dreamy Romantic poetry and evocative chromatic harmonies stirred by great surges of musical emotion. This, the
This is No. 6 from Gretchaninoff's cycle of children's songs entitled The Honeybee, opus 66. The moderately contrapuntal vocal writing is punctuated by an interesting piano accompaniment.
A delightfully playful setting from Gretchaninoff's song cycle The Honeybee, opus 66, based on Russian folk songs for children. A creative English translation by Nancy McKibben makes this piece