Una música constante

Michael Holme is a very talented violinist, whose teacher foresaw a promising career as a performer in his future, and yet who has ended up as the second violin in the Maggiore Quartet, a position as comfortable and without prospects as his life, which is grey and melancholic in a London that is equally sad. Incompetent in the real world, only two passions get him going: Schubert and his violin, a Tononi that his first friend and mentor, Mrs. Formby, gave him as a present, a woman who introduced him to the pleasures of music and poetry when he was a child. But the thick shell that maintains his cold and routine existence is soon broken by chance: one afternoon, in the middle of the bustle of the city, he thinks he sees Julia, a pianist whom he loved and lost ten years before due to his doubts and incapacity to confront reality. / Michael Holme es un violinista de gran talento, a quien su maestro auguraba una prometedora carrera como concertista, y que ha acabado como segundo violín en el Cuarteto Maggiore, una posición tan cómoda y sin expectativas como su propia vida, que transcurre gris y melancólica en un Londres igual de triste y melancólico. Incompetente para el mundo real, sólo dos pasiones le animan: Schubert y su violín, un Tononi que le regaló su primera amiga y mentora, Mrs. Formby, quien de niño le introdujo en los placeres de la música y la poesía. Pero el grueso caparazón que mantiene su fría y rutinaria existencia se ve de pronto roto por el azar: una tarde, en medio del bullicio de la ciudad, cree ver a Julia, una pianista a la que amó y perdió diez años atrás debido a sus dudas y a su incapacidad de enfrentarse a la realidad.