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Performances of Igor Stravinsky at BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Thu 13 Mar 2025
- 19:30
  Zakir Hussain’s Triple Concerto & Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird’
  Glasgow City Halls
  Imagine...an intoxicating combination of Eastern and Western traditions creates musical magic.
  Imagine...an intoxicating combination of Eastern and Western traditions creates musical magic.
  Programme
  Zakir Hussain
  Triple Concerto for Tabla, Sitar and Bansuri(28 mins)
  interval
  Sergey Rachmaninov
  The Isle of the Dead(20 mins)
  Igor Stravinsky
  The Firebird – suite (revised version, 1919)(23 mins)
  Performers
  Fazal Qureshi
  tabla
  tabla
  Niladri Kumar
  sitar
  sitar
  Rakesh Chaurasia
  bansuri
  bansuri
  Alpesh Chauhan
  conductor
  conductor
  BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Zakir Hussain
  Sergey Rachmaninov
  Igor Stravinsky
  Part of
  BBC SSO 2024-25 Season BBC SSO Zakir Hussain’s Triple Concerto & Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird’ BBC SSO Student Series 2024/25 BBC SSO Glasgow Series 2024/25
Fri 14 Mar 2025
- 19:30
  Stravinsky's The Firebird in Aberdeen
  Music Hall, Aberdeen
  Imagine...an intoxicating combination of Eastern and Western traditions creates musical magic
  Imagine...an intoxicating combination of Eastern and Western traditions creates musical magic
  Programme
  Zakir Hussain
  Triple Concerto for Tabla, Sitar and Bansuri(28 mins)
  interval
  Sergey Rachmaninov
  The Isle of the Dead(20 mins)
  Igor Stravinsky
  The Firebird – suite (revised version, 1919)(23 mins)
  Performers
  Fazal Qureshi
  tabla
  tabla
  Niladri Kumar
  sitar
  sitar
  Rakesh Chaurasia
  bansuri
  bansuri
  Alpesh Chauhan
  conductor
  conductor
  BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Zakir Hussain
  Sergey Rachmaninov
  Igor Stravinsky
  Part of
  BBC SSO 2024-25 Season BBC SSO Zakir Hussain’s Triple Concerto & Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird’ BBC SSO Aberdeen 2024/25 Series
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.
  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
  Part of
  BBC SSO at Edinburgh International Festival 2025
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Thu 11 Sep 2025
- 19:30
  Brahms’s Second Symphony
  Royal Albert Hall
  Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present two works by Gabrieli alongside Stravinsky’s last major work, the Requiem Canticles. Brahms’s happiest symphony, the Second, makes up the second half
  Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present two works by Gabrieli alongside Stravinsky’s last major work, the Requiem Canticles. Brahms’s happiest symphony, the Second, makes up the second half
  Programme
  Giovanni Gabrieli
  In ecclesiis (ed. Maderna)(10 mins)
  Igor Stravinsky
  Requiem Canticles(15 mins)
  interval
  Giovanni Gabrieli
  Canzone a tre core (ed. Maderna)(5 mins)
  Johannes Brahms
  Symphony No. 2 in D major(45 mins)
  Performers
  Jess Dandy
  contralto
  contralto
  Ashley Riches
  bass-baritone
  bass-baritone
  National Youth Choir
  BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  Ilan Volkov
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Giovanni Gabrieli
  Igor Stravinsky
  Johannes Brahms
  Part of
  Proms 2025
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  Seats from £10 to £46 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £10 to £46 (plus booking fee)