Musical Meditations

1. Episode · Aug 23, 2026

   Vivaldi's "Winter", Largo — Warm Inside While It Rains (opens the original)

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   Vivaldi's "Winter" from The Four Seasons tells you exactly what it is about — in writing. When he published the concertos in 1725, Vivaldi printed a sonnet alongside each season, then set little letters in the margins of the score matching lines of the poem to exact bars of music. The line he marked against the slow movement is very simple: to spend quiet, contented days beside the fire, while outside the rain soaks a hundred others. This meditation starts out in the cold — the shivering F minor

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2. Episode · Jul 29, 2026

   Chopin's Nocturne in E-flat major — The Piece He Never Finished (opens the original)

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   Chopin's Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 is the most famous nocturne in the world — and it has no final version. We know because his students kept the evidence. In their scores, in his own pencil, Chopin wrote out new ornaments for the melody: extra turns, little cascades, different ones for different pupils. He kept re-singing the same song all his life. So this meditation isn't about following the notes. It's about following the *returns* — the same melody coming back, dressed differentl

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