Love in Crescendo

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. He was the maestro. She was his brightest student. Their love affair was forbidden, and eleven years later the music is bringing it back.

In Vienna, celebrated conductor Gabriel Marchetti broke the one rule he had always kept. Charlene Falk was twenty, a violinist of rare fire who played as though the music frightened her and she had decided to frighten it back. He was forty-one, careful and admired across Europe. Their affair grew in late-night rehearsal rooms and quiet hotel corridors, until one night Gabriel ended it, sent her to Berlin, called it honour and never told her why.

Now Charlene joins his London orchestra at the Barbican as associate leader, seated an arm’s length below his rostrum. She is no longer his student, and she no longer needs his approval. Every rehearsal becomes a conversation only they can hear. When he tells her that her playing is too private, they both know he is not talking about Mahler.

This time they meet as equals, and the desire they buried returns deeper and harder to resist. But an orchestra is a village in evening dress, a hundred players watching and whispering. As the season builds towards a Christmas broadcast and an audition that could decide her future, every stolen night risks scandal and the question of whether she earned her chair.

Then a warning arrives: Charlene was given the wrong version of Vienna. A journalist with a scandal to sell, a London debut that quietly vanished and a man named Viktor Saranov are bound up in a secret Gabriel has carried for eleven years. Now Saranov is in London, and the truth will not wait for the final bar.

Set to Sibelius, Mahler, Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Waldteufel, Love in Crescendo is a passionate second-chance romance of desire, discipline and forbidden love. Perfect for listeners who love slow-burn tension and classical music. Includes a guide to the music behind every chapter.

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Lydbog: 19. oktober 2026