The Italian’s second winter journey strikes straight to the heart

This is Ludovico Einaudi’s second instalment of an album-per-month project. Inspired by his winter walks in the mountains, he reflects on the changes in nature from day to day. Often cloaked in snow, these walks have a spiritual dimension through music that explores the inner journey that the composer made. This album has all the hallmarks that endear Einaudi’s music to a vast global audience. The piano lines, often simple in their repetitions, touch the heart in a very direct way. There’s an intimacy here that makes the listener a fellow traveller on this winter journey.