Edinburgh International Festival: Bernstein & Stravinsky
Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Stravinsky's Petrushka performed by 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Karina Canellakis at the Edinburgh International Festival.
The highly in-demand conductor Karina Canellakis returns to the Edinburgh International Festival to lead this monumental programme with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and the 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra, characterised by thrilling sounds and ideas of love, divine or human.
The moving symphonic work Les Offrandes Oubli茅es 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 Bernstein to write the Chichester Psalms in 1965, he hinted they'd be delighted if it had 鈥榮omething of the West Side Story鈥� about it. Bernstein came through. Its jazzy inflections promise a thrilling workout for the Festival Chorus and emotive countertenor Hugh Cutting.
For the finale, Igor Stravinsky's dazzling 1911 ballet Petrushka is brilliantly reorchestrated by the composer in 1947 for the concert platform.
Recorded at Edinburgh's Usher Hall on 21 August 2025, presented by Donald Macleod.
Messiaen: Les offrandes oubli茅es
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
c. 8:15pm
interval
c. 8.35pm
Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)
Hugh Cutting, countertenor
James Grossmith, chorus Director
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
Karina Canellakis, conductor
蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Les Offrandes oubli茅es
Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karina Canellakis. -
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Leonard Bernstein
Chichester psalms
Singer: Hugh Cutting. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karina Canellakis. Choir: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Choir: Rising Stars of Voice. -
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 36
Performer: Alexis Weissenberg.- Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka
Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karina Canellakis. -
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B茅la Bart贸k
Sonata No 1, Sz 75
Performer: Veronika Eberle. Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
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