Performances of Olivier Messiaen at BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thu 21 Aug 2025

• 19:30

  EIF: Bernstein & Stravinsky

  Usher Hall, Edinburgh

  Karina Canellakis conducts the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and BBC SSO in a programme featuring Messiaen's Les Offrandes Oubliées, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with Hugh Cutting, and Stravinsky's reorchestrated Petrushka.

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  Karina Canellakis conducts the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and BBC SSO in a programme featuring Messiaen's Les Offrandes Oubliées, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with Hugh Cutting, and Stravinsky's reorchestrated Petrushka.

  Programme

  • • • Olivier Messiaen
      • Les offrandes oubliées(12 mins)
    • • Leonard Bernstein
      • Chichester Psalms(19 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Igor Stravinsky
      • Petrushka (1947 version)(34 mins)

  Performers

  • Edinburgh Festival Chorus
  • Hugh Cutting

    Countertenor
    Countertenor
  • James Grossmith

    Chorus Director
    Chorus Director
  • Karina Canellakis

    Conductor
    Conductor
  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

  Composers

  • Olivier Messiaen
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Igor Stravinsky

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  Part of

  BBC SSO at Edinburgh International Festival 2025