The first full episode of season five features Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bartsch.

This was a fascinating interview, around Nik's playing and his new album - Entendre. I've selected two tracks to begin and end the podcast and I hope they give you a flavour of Nik's playing, which beautifully and profoundly confounds ideas of composition, interpretation and improvisation. Entendre is well worth a listen.

Thanks to Nik for allowing me to play extracts from the albumalongside our conversation.

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