This week I'm joined (via Skype) by Clare Loveday, where we discuss the importance of collaboration, what happens when inspiration doesn't strike and the "best" (ahem ahem) of Brahms. I also (apparently) tell the rudest joke I know...

Featured music:

"Eine Kleine Dubstep" (Matthijs van Dijk, performed by the Signum Quartet)

"48km North-west of Kokstad" (Clare Loveday, performed by Duo Montagnard: Joe Murphy (saxophone) & Matt Slotkin (guitar))

"Palimpsest" (Clare Loveday, performed by Ceri Moelwyn-Hughes (alto saxophone) & Gerrit Jordaan (organ))

"City Deep" (Clare Loveday, performed by Naomi Sullivan (saxophone) & Luke Newby (clarinet))

"Heatwave" for clarinet & piano (Clare Loveday, performed by Guy Yehuda & Deborah Moriarty)

"Cycles" for solo violin (Clare Loveday, performed by Waldo Alexander)

"Duodectet 1" (Clare Loveday, performed by the Royal College of Music Saxophone Ensemble, conducted by Kyle Horch)