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Conductor Karina Canellakis returns to the Festival and leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (SSO) through a monumental programme featuring Messiaen, Stravinsky and Bernstein.

The in-demandKarina Canellakis returns after making her International Festival debut in the 2023 Closing Concert. She leads this monumental programme with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and the BBC SSO, characterised by thrilling sounds and ideas of love, divine or human.

The moving symphonic workLesOffrandes Oublies made Olivier Messiaen's name aged just 22, his devout Catholicism driving this three-part meditation on eternal mysteries and human sin.

When the Dean of Chichester Cathedral commissioned Leonard Bernsteinto write theChichester Psalmsin 1965, he hinted they'd be delighted if it had something of the West Side Story about it. Bernstein came through. Its jazzy inflections promise a thrilling workout for the Festival Chorus and emotive countertenor Hugh Cutting.

For thefinale, Igor Stravinsky'sdazzling 1911 balletPetrushka is brilliantly reorchestrated by the composer in 1947 for the concert platform.

Supported by Pirie Rankin Endowed Fund

Karina Canellakis Conductor

Edinburgh Festival Chorus

James Grossmith Chorus Director

Rising Stars of Voice

Hugh Cutting Countertenor

Messiaen Les Offrandes oublies

Bernstein Chichester Psalms*

Stravinsky Petrushka (1947 version)

*Sung in Hebrew with English surtitles

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