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 that the work's opening bassoon melody was derived from an anthology of Lithuanian folk songs, but maintained that this was his only borrowing from such sources; if other elements sounded like aboriginal folk music, he said, it was due to "some unconscious 'folk' memory". However, Morton has identified several more melodies in Part I as having their origins in the Lithuanian collection. More recently Richard Taruskin has discovered in the score an adapted tune from one of Rimsky-Korsakov's "One Hundred Russian National Songs". Taruskin notes the paradox whereby "The Rite", generally acknowledged as the most revolutionary of the composer's early