For two decades, Jesús Ruiz Mantilla has been a musical chronicler for the newspaper El País. Counting music collects much of his experience in that field. A work that summarizes the profession to which he has passionately dedicated himself through his encounters with first-rate figures, but which has led him to the conclusion from the very title that it is an utopia impossible to fulfill. Different protagonists -creators and performers- bring us closer to their experience with music. Interviews with great directors of our time, from Daniel Barenboim to Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti or Gustavo Dudamel, pianists such as Brendel, Pollini, Zimerman, Sokolov, Maria Joao Pires or deep knowledge of phenomena such as the Venezuelan orchestras of José Antonio Abreu, the orchestra of Israelis and Palestinians, West-Eastern Divan or the emergence of Chinese pianists help to understand the fascinating creative panorama of classical music today