American composer Caroline Shaw’s latest album, a collaboration with Sō Percussion, is called Rectangles and Circumstance. It’s a collection of ten songs run through with words by Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, William Blake and Christina Rossetti, as well as Caroline herself. She joins Andy from her home in the US to talk about her collaborators and her co-poets. German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt takes the role of guest director, soloist, and conductor in his first tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Nestling Haydn’s jubilant Cello Concerto in C major amongst works by significantly more angular composers like Kurtag, Veress and Xenakis, he joins Andy on The Music Show to map out his versatile and prolific life on the concert platform and beyond. Music heard in the show:  Title: Partita for 8 Voices i. Allemande Composer: Caroline Shaw Artist: Roomful of Teeth Album: Partita for 8 Voices Label: New Amsterdam Title: Sing On, And So, The Parting Glass, and To Music Composer: Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion Artist: Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion Album: Rectangles and Circumstance Label: Nonesuch Title: Cello Concerto in C Major; iii. Finale Composer: Joseph Haydn Artist: Nicolas Altstaedt, Australian Chamber Orchestra Courtesy of the ACO Title: Atlas; iii. Perpetuum Mobile – Ladon the Dragon Composer: Helena Winkelman Artist: Nicolas Altstaedt, Lockenhaus Artists Album: Creation Label: Alpha ALPHA861 Technical production by Simon Branthwaite The Music Show is made on Gadigal and Gundungurra Land.