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The in-demand conductor Karina Canellakis returns after making her Edinburgh International Festival debut in the 2023 Closing Concert. She leads this monumental programme with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ SSO, characterised by thrilling sounds and ideas of love, divine or human.

The moving symphonic work Les Offrandes Oubliées 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 ‘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 the finale, Igor Stravinsky's dazzling 1911 ballet Petrushka is brilliantly reorchestrated by the composer in 1947 for the concert platform.