This Sunday, May 22, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra continues its Symphony at the Roundhouse series in a program led by VSO Music Director Bramwell Tovey. The concert features soprano Janice Jackson and four works by Canadian composers, including a world premiere of  Hardcore by Tim Brady, set to lyrics by Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip. Other works on the program? VSO resident composer Scott Good’s Etudes for Chamber Orchestra, Emily Doolittle’s Four Pieces About Water and UBC Assistant Professor Dorothy Chang’s Chamber Variations.

This Thursday, May 26, Montreal’s Ensemble Appassionata (led by music director Daniel Myssyk) gives the Montreal premiere of a new version of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony in B minor – but this time, finished. The edition has been prepared by Schubert scholar Brian Newbould, and includes the two movements we know so well, along with Newbould’s orchestration of a scherzo that the musicologist believes was destined for the symphony (but never completed) and, as finale, the Entr’acte No. 1 from Rosamunde (also in B minor).