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 a series of flute trills that usher in the "Spring Rounds", in which a slow and laborious theme gradually rises to a dissonant fortissimo, a "ghastly caricature" of the episode's main tune. Brass and percussion predominate as the "Ritual of the Rival Tribes" begins. A tune emerges on tenor and bass tubas, leading after much repetition to the entry of the Sage's procession. The music then comes to a virtual halt, "bleached free of colour" (Hill), as the Sage blesses the earth. The "Dance of the Earth" then begins, bringing Part I to a close in a series of phrases