This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

Blockbusters from Kaufmann and the Dude lead a stellar pack, but an exceptional month throws up plenty of other treasure, plus a remarkable Aussie debut.

We chart the latest appointments and departures in the arts sector, among them Anne Dunn who joins Sydney Theatre Company and Carl Crossin who leaves Adelaide Chamber Singers.

Affectionately known as ‘Tipi’, Timo Veikko-Valve is Principal Cello at the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He picked up the instrument to fill the family piano trio, and because a teacher once declared “he looks like a cellist”.

It may take more than we thought to destroy an entire industry.

Finding the "revolting stench": Marta Dusseldorp and Essie Davis co-star in the Tasmanian premiere of Genet's macabre play The Maids.

Soprano Franziska Heinzen and pianist Benjamin Mead tell us about their second duo album Women Composers, featuring 24 art songs by 24 women composers written across close to 200 years.

In this month's column, Lynden Barber recommends two police series and the ABC's drama on the 2019–2020 Australian bush fire emergency.

After doing a double degree, Alexander Rodrigues had to choose between astrophysics and music. He settled on music and is now the Robert and Elizabeth Albert Conducting Fellow at The Australian Ballet.

October’s playlist digs into the unique repertoire of the guitar, showcasing Australia's outsized contribution the repertoire with releases from 1996 all the way to this year.

Our recording of the month for October comes to us from Giovanni Antonini, Artistic Director of Haydn 2032, a mammoth project that aims to record Haydn's complete symphonies in time for the 300th anniversary of his birth.

A collector's box to beat them all, and not a conductor in sight.