Feel like a little Valentine’s Day present? Maybe as good as chocolates? I have a music podcast for you, devoted to love songs (plus some “adjacent” music). Go here. You will find a slew of composers, a slew of singers, and a slew of pianists.

Maybe I could tell you, here and now, what I say at the beginning of my podcast.

When I do a Christmas special — a Christmas episode — the repertoire to choose from is immense. There is a wealth of Christmas music, built up over the centuries. When I do an Easter special — well, less immense. Fourth of July? Plenty of material.

How about music related to the autumn? There’s plenty — but it’s not like Christmas. I once did a special on September alone. You could do maybe two of them — but a third would be difficult.

Now I come to Valentine’s Day and love — romantic love. I have to tell you a story. Once, Luciano Pavarotti was a guest on the David Letterman show. He sang a song, an Italian song — then he and Dave had a delightful exchange about it.

I’ve found it on YouTube, actually. I don’t have to go from memory. I’ll relate the precise exchange.

Dave asked, “What did we hear there? What was that? What should we know about that piece of music?”

Pavarotti answered, “This is a piece of music — it’s talking about the sun, who is coming up, and it’s talking about love, and about the usual things that everybody knows very well what they are.”

Dave interjected, “Really, all that was in there?”

Pavarotti: “Yes.”

Dave: “Wow.”

Pavarotti then said, “I think it’s generally in any song, that, no?”

I just love that. And yes — it’s generally in any song, that. Hard to think of a song that’s not a love song.

What did Pavarotti sing that night, by the way? “Mattinata” (by Leoncavallo, the composer of Cavalleria rusticana). That is included in my Valentine’s Day special. We have Italian songs, French songs, American songs . . .

Vive l’amour. And have a good one. Again, for my “box of chocolates” — something like the musical equivalent — go here.