The Magical Music Box Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel 22. On Thin Ice - Borodin's Polovtsian Dances 23. Fire-Bringers - Beethoven's Symphony No 5 24. The Captain's Curse - Nocturnes by Debussy 25. Eve of Battle - Solo Piano Pieces by Chopin 26. Black Angus - Overtures by Mendelssohn 27. The Imperial Robes - A Little Night Music by Mozart 28. Space Envoys - Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2 29. Boomerang! - Symphonies Nos 5 and 6 by Mahler 30. Bird of Fire - Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite 31. Lost and Found - Robert Schumann's "Spring" Symphony 32. Pyramid of Khonsoul -
The Rite of Spring critical triumph. It has remained in the company's repertoire for more than 50 years; after its revival in May 2011 "The Daily Telegraph"s critic Mark Monahan called it one of the Royal Ballet's greatest achievements. Moscow first saw "The Rite" in 1965, in a version choreographed for the Bolshoi Ballet by Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasiliev. This production was shown in Leningrad four years later, at the Maly Opera Theatre, and introduced a storyline that provided the Chosen One with a lover who wreaks vengeance on the elders after the sacrifice. Johnson describes the production as "a product of state