Nico Muhly
IMPOSSIBLE THINGS for tenor, violin and string orchestra
Full score
St Rose Music Publishing Co. / Chester Music Ltd.
Commissioned by Britten Sinfonia, Muziekcentrum Frits Philips and Tapiola Sinfonietta. World premiere given at Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, Eindhoven, on 27 January 2010 by Britten Sinfonia, Pekka Kuusisto (violin) and Mark Padmore (tenor). Britten Sinfonia is grateful to Arts Council England for making this commission possible.
Instrumentation: minimum strings count 7.6.5.3.2. Duration: c. 24 minutes Full score in C. Orchestral parts are available on hire from the publisher.
PART I THE HEREAFTER (1892)
JANUARY OF 1904 (1904) Ah this January, this January’s nights,
I believe in the Hereafter. Material appetites or love for the real don’t beguile me. It’s not habit but instinct. The heavenly word will be added
when I sit and refashion in my thoughts those moments and I come upon you, and I hear our final words, and hear the first.
to life’s imperfect sentence, otherwise inane. Respite and reward will follow upon action. When sight is forevermore closed to Creation,
This January’s despairing nights, when the vision goes and leaves me all alone. How swiftly it departs and melts away— the trees go, the streets go, the houses go, the lights go: it fades and disappears, your erotic shape.
the eye will be opened in the presence of the Creator. An immortal wave of life will flow from each and every Gospel of Christ—wave of life uninterrupted.
NEAR AN OPEN WINDOW In the stillness of an autumn night, I sit near an open window, for entire hours, in a perfect, voluptuous tranquillity. The gentle rainfall of the leaves descends. The keening of the perishable world resounds within my perishable nature, but is a dulcet keening, rising like a prayer. My window opens up an unknown world. A fount of fragrant memories, unutterable, appears before me. Against my window wings are beating—chill autumnal exhalations approach me and encircle me and in their holy tongue they speak to me. I feel vague and wide-embracing hopes; and in the hallowed silence of creation, my ears hear melodies, hear the crystalline, the mystic music of the chorus of the stars.
PART II SEPTEMBER OF 1903 (1904) At least let me be deceived by delusions, now, so that I might not feel my empty life. And I was so close so many times. And how I froze, and how I was afraid; why should I remain with lips shut tight; while within me weeps my empty life, and my longings wear their mourning black. To be, so many times, so close to the eyes, and to the sensual lips, to the dreamed of, beloved body. To be, so many times, so close.
PART III 27 JUNE 1906, 2 P. M. (1908) When the Christians brought him to be hanged, the innocent boy of seventeen, his mother, who there beside the scaffold had dragged herself and lay beaten on the ground beneath the midday sun, the savage sun, now would moan, and howl like a wolf, a beast, and then the martyr, overcome, would keen “Seventeen years only you lived with me, my child.” And when they took him up the scaffold’s steps and passed the rope around him and strangled him, the innocent boy, seventeen years old, and piteously it hung inside the void, with the spasms of black agony— the youthful body, beautifully wrought— his mother, martyr, wallowed on the ground and now she keened no more about his years: “Seventeen days only,” she keened, “seventeen days only I had joy of you, my child.”
IMPOSSIBLE THINGS (1897) There is one joy alone, but one that’s blessed, one consolation only in this pain. How many thronging tawdry days were missed because of this ending; how much ennui. A poet has said: “The loveliest music is the one that cannot be played.” And I, I daresay that by far the best life is the one that cannot be lived.
—C.P. CAVAFY translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
for Pekka Kuusisto, Mark Padmore & the Britten Sinfonia
IMPOSSIBLE THINGS Part I The Hereafter, Near an Open Window C.P. Cavafy
Nico Muhly (2009)
translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
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14 160 T.
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233 T.
stars.
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sf - choked, ugly unis. poco sul pont.
4 4
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sempre sf
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sempre sf
256 T.
so
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feel
my
emp
ty
life.
3
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man
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how
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ord. Vn. II
ord. div. a2
(div. a3)
slight inflection downwards
Va.
f
mfz
p
Vc. div.
Cb.
272
270
3 2
T.
I
froze,
and
how
I
4 4 was
a
saltando
Solo Vn.
3 2
5
sf
6
4 4
mf molto sul pont.
pizz.
arco
sf
272
3 2
4 4
mf pesante
sff
Vn. I
arco
pizz.
sf
molto sul pont.
3 2
mf pesante
sff molto sul pont.
3 2
Vn. II
mf pesante unis., bird chirps behind bridge
3
3
p
mf
4 4
sff
div. a3 poco sul pont.
3 2
Va.
p
4 4
n
4 4 p
3 2
f ord.
4 4
mf
Vc.
3 2
ord.
4 4
mf
Cb.
3 2
ord.
mf
4 4
23 275 T.
277 f
4 4
3 2
fraid;
Why
4 4
Solo Vn.
3 4
4 4
should
3 2
I
re
3 4
4 4
f
277
ord.
4 4
6
3 2
mf
3 4
arco
sff
4 4 ff
f
f
Vn. I
ord.
4 4
mf ord.
4 4
Vn. II
3 2
sff
f
div.
arco
sff
mf
4 4
Va.
arco
3 2
3 2 n
3 4
4 4 ff
3 4
4 4
f
unis.
ff
f
3 4
arco
sff
f
4 4
f
ff
div., arco
4 4
3 2 mf
mf
3 4 sff
4 4
sfp
ff
sfp
Vc.
4 4 mf
mf
sff
4 4
Cb.
arco
3 2
3 4 sfp
ff
3 2
4 4
sfp
ff
mf
281
2 4
T.
main
with
lips
sfp
3 4
mf
mf
4 4
shut
tight;
sfp
4 4 while
2 4
Solo Vn.
with
4 4 sfp
mf molto sul pont.
(div.) Vn. I
sff
Vn. II
sff
Va.
sfp
sfp
sff
2 4
4 4 sff
2 4
4 4
sff
sff
2 4
4 4
2 4
4 4
2 4
4 4
sim.
sim.
Cb.
sfp
4 4
sff
molto sul pont.
sff
2 4
sff
molto sul pont.
Vc.
sim.
in
me
24 288 T.
weeps
my
emp
ty
life,
Solo Vn.
mf
sf ord.
(div.)
p
mf
sul pont.
ord.
sul pont.
ord.
Vn. I
ord.
(div.) Vn. II
(div.)
Vc. div.
Cb.
294
f
mf
T.
and
my
long
ings
wear
their
mourn
ing
black.
Solo Vn.
f
Vn. I
p
ff
p
ff
Vn. II
Vc.
p sub.
ff
p sub.
ff
p sub.
ff
Cb.
300
sempre mf
T.
To
be,
so man y
times,
Solo Vn.
300
sempre mf
div. a3 sul tasto, dolciss.
Vn. I
mf
mf
mp
mp
mp
mf
mp
mp
mp
mf
mp
mp
mp
mf
mp
mp
mp
sul tasto, dolciss.
mf sul tasto, dolciss. Vn. II div. a3
mf sul tasto, dolciss.
mf
25 306 T.
so
close
to
the
eyes,
and
Solo Vn.
Vn. I
mp
mp
pp
mf
pp
mp
mp
pp
mf
pp
mp
mp
pp
mf
pp
mp
mp
pp
mf
pp
Vn. II
313
312
piĂš dolce
T.
to
the
sen
sual
lips,
to
the
dreamed
of,
Solo Vn.
piĂš dolce
313 Vn. I
p
mp
mp
mp
p
mp
mp
mp
p
mp
mp
mp
p
mp
mp
mp
Vn. II
318 T.
be
lov
ed
bod
y.
Solo Vn.
Vn. I
mp
mp
mp
mp
pp
mp
mp
mp
mp
pp
mp
mp
mp
mp
pp
mp
mp
mp
mp
pp
Vn. II
26
324 T.
To
be,
so
man
y
times,
Solo Vn.
(div. a3) Vn. I
Vn. II div. a3
mf
pp
p
mf
pp
p
mf
pp
p
mf
pp
p
senza rit.
328 T.
so
close.
Solo Vn.
senza rit. Vn. I
pp
1 solo - slowly move between open strings, always playing two notes
pp pp very loosely, lazily Vn. II
pp
pp
div., ord.
Va.
mf
pp
mf
Vc.
p
mp
332 Suddenly Slower q = 54, colla voce sempre mp (ossia: 8vb) T.
Ah
this
Jan
u ar
y,
this Jan
u ar
y’s
nights,
332 Suddenly Slower q = 54, colla voce slowly move between open strings, always playing two notes 1 solo
Vn. I
pp very loosely, lazily
gli altri
sempre p
1 solo
Vn. II gli altri
sempre p Va.
p
mp
p
27 338 T.
when I
sit
and re
fash
ion
in my
thoughts
those
mo
ments
and I come
1 solo
Vn. I
gli altri
1 solo
Vn. II
gli altri
Va.
p saltando, gliss.
Vc. div.
pp
6
6
continue playing gestures, do not synchronize with other players
pp
6
continue playing gestures, do not synchronize with other players
344 T.
on
you,
and
I
hear
our
fi
nal
words,
and hear
344
Vn. I
Vn. II
Va.
pp
Vc.
mp
p
the first.
up
28 353
350 T.
loco Solo Vn.
3
mp - molto espress.
3
3
7
3
353
1 solo
Vn. I
gli altri
1 solo
Vn. II
gli altri
Va.
mp
p
mp
p 1, 2 pizz.
pp space gestures more distantly
Vc. div.
p
pp space gestures more distantly
pp
6
6
unis. pizz.
Cb.
p
355
3
loco
3
Solo Vn.
mp
3
mf
Vn. I
Vn. II
Va.
mp
Vc.
Cb.
p
5
29 362 T.
This Jan
b
u
ar
y’s
des pair
ing
nights,
when the vi sion
Solo Vn.
pp
(p)
362 1 solo
Vn. I gli altri
1 solo
Vn. II gli altri
Va.
p
pp
mp
Vc. div.
Cb.
368
370
5
T.
and leaves me all a lone.
How swift
ly
it
de parts
and melts
a
370
Vn. I
Vn. II
Va.
p
Vc.
Cb.
mp
p
mp
way–
goes
30 374 T.
the trees
go,
the streets
go,
the hous es
go,
the lights go:
it
1 solo
Vn. I gli altri
1 solo
(tutti)
Vn. II gli altri
dolciss. Va.
pp
mf
pp
Vc. div.
Cb.
380
3
T.
fades
and dis ap pears,
your
e
rot
ic
shape.
pizz. arco
pizz.
arco
Solo Vn.
380
5
mp
6
Vn. I
6
mp
Vn. II div.
6
p
6
3
mp
6
p
mp
p
Va.
mp
unis. Vc.
Cb.
384 Solo Vn.
3
p (tutti) Vn. I
6
mp
Vn. II
3
p
6
3
p
3
mp
ppp
3
p
ppp Va.
pp
mp
pp
31
Part III 27 June, 1906, 2 pm; Impossible Things q = 92-96, moving 390 1., pizz.
3 4
Contrabass
4 4
3 4
p
half section arco sul tasto
397
4 4
Vc.
3 4
p
mp
1.
Cb. div.
2. pizz.
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
p
404
4 4
Va.
3 4
unis.
pp
pp Vc. div.
arco sul tasto
5
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
5
p
Cb.
411 Vn. I
4 4
3 4
sul pont.
pp Va.
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
p div., ord.
Vc.
Cb.
p
p
5
32
418
p
4 4
T.
When the Christ ians
brought him
div. ord.
418
3 4
Vn. I
pp unis. Vn. II
pp Va.
Vc.
Cb. div.
3 to be hanged,
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
425
424
4 4
T.
his moth er,
the in no cent
who there
be side the
3 scaf
fold
had
425 Vn. I
3 dragged her
boy
of sev en
teen,
3 4 self
and lay beat en
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
on
p Vn. II
p
arco
pp
Cb.
sfp
4 4
pp
sf
432
430
be neath the
mid day
Solo Vn.
mf
pp
432 Vn. I
p
4 4
T.
pp
3 4
pp
sun,
3 4 the sav age sun,
now
would moan,
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
mf
p
Vn. II
p Va.
p div. Vc.
p pizz.
Cb.
p
3
the ground
33 437
2 4
3 4
2 4
3 4
2 4
3 4
arco
2 4
3 4
pizz.
2 4
3 4
3
T.
and howl like a wolf,
a beast,
and then the mar
tyr,
o ver come,
would keen
div. Va.
sfp (div.)
Vc.
sfp
Cb.
arco
444
3 4
T.
“Sev
en
teen
years
Sev
en
teen
3 4
Solo Vn.
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
444 div.
3 4
Vn. I
sub. p
3 4
Vn. II
div.
sub. p
3 4
Va.
3 4
Vc.
unis.
sub. p
p
446 T.
years
on
ly
you
lived
with
me,
my
Solo Vn.
6
Vn. I
Vn. II
Va.
Vc.
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
34
Moving Slightly q = 60 448
450
T.
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
457
4 4
child.�
Solo Vn.
pp
f
4 4 p
Moving Slightly q = 60 448
450
Vn. I
Vn. II
Va.
457
4 4
3 4
4 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
4 4
3 4
4 4 mf intense
4 4
Vc.
2. pizz.
3 4
4 4
Cb.
4 4 tutti arco
3 4
mp
459 Vn. II
4 4
f
464 unis.
3 4
4 4
mp
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
mp
4 4
Va.
3 4
1 sola
mp rich
mfz
4 4
Cb.
mf
3 4
mp
4 4 sf
p
mp
471
468
3 4
Vn. II
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
pp
Va.
p
Vc.
mp
f
mp
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
mf
Cb.
p
3
mf
mf
35 474 T.
3 4 And
3 when
they took
him
up
the
scaf fold’s
steps
and
passed
the rope
a
(1 sola)
3 4
Va.
3
f
3
mp
3 4
Vc.
f
p
sfp
f
p
sfp
3 4
Cb.
478
4 4
T.
round him
and
3 4
stran gled him,
the
478
flautando
4 4
1 sola
mf
Va.
p
le altre
in no cent
boy,
sev
en
teen
years
3 4 5
5
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
5
3
p div. Vc.
p 1. arco 2. pizz. Cb.
p
485
483
4 4
T.
3 and pit eous ly
old,
it
hung
in
485
4 4
div. Vn. I
p
mp
4 4
div. a3 Vn. II
mp
1, 2, ord.
Va.
5
3
3
3
4 4
mp tutti div.
3.
mp
5
5
4 4 5
4 4
Vc.
4 4
Cb.
mp
36 487 T.
3
4 4 side
Vn. I
Vn. II
the
void,
3 4
with the
spa
4 4
(div.)
3 4
4 4
(div. a3)
3 4
3 of black ag
sms
o
ny
mf
Va. div. a3
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
mf
5
5 5
5
4 4
Vc.
4 4
Cb.
unis. 5
mp 5
3 4
5
5
5
5
3 4 492
490
4 4
T.
the
youth
ful
bod
y,
beau
3 ti
ful
ly
wrought–
his moth
3 4
er,
492 Vn. I
mar
tyr,
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
4 4
3 4
pp div. a2 Vn. II
pp
pp
Va.
5
5
Vc.
pp
5
Cb.
pp
495 T.
very freely
3 4 3 wal lowed
Vn. I
on
the
ground
and
now
she keened no
more
a
bout
his
3 8
G.P.
4 4
3 8
G.P.
4 4
3 years:
3 4 f
Vn. II
3 4
3 8
4 4
3 8
4 4
3 8
4 4
3 8
4 4
f Va.
3 4 f
Vc.
Cb.
3 4 3 4
f
f
37 500 Slightly Faster q = 74
4 4
T.
“sev en teen days
on
ly,”
she
keened,
4 4
Solo Vn.
mf
n
mp
f
500 Slightly Faster q = 74
4div. a3 4
Vn. I
p
f
p
f
p
f
p
f
p
div. a3
4 4
Vn. II
p div. a3
4 4
Va.
p div. a3
4 4
Vc.
p
504 T.
“sev en teen days
on ly
I had joy
of
you,
my
child.”
Solo Vn.
mp
mf
Vn. I
f
mf
p
p
mf
f
mf
p
p
mf
f
mf
p
p
mf
Vn. II
Va.
Vc.
f
511 Solo Vn.
mp
Vn. I
p
ppp
p
f
p
f
p
p
ppp
p
f
p
f
p
p
ppp
f
p
f
p
Vn. II
Va.
mf
mf
p
38
520 Solo Vn.
3
mp
3
520 1 solo Vn. I
p
1 solo
p Vn. II
parlando* gli altri
p
1 sola
p
Va.
parlando* le altre
p
1 solo
p
Vc.
parlando* gli altri
p
div. arco, slow tremolo; almost measured
Cb.
p
mf
p
mf
526 Solo Vn.
3 4
3
mf
p
3
3 4
Vn. I
3 4 Vn. II
non div.
3 4 3 4
Va.
3 4 3 4
Vc.
3 4 3 4
Cb.
p
mf
*loose plainchant on given pitches
p
mf
p
mf
p
39 532
4 4
Solo Vn.
536
3
p
mf
536
(1 solo)
4 4
Vn. I
mfz
4 4
1 solo
mfz Vn. II
4 4
gli altri
unis.
mfz
4 4
1 sola
mfz
Va.
4 4
le altre
mfz
4 4
1 solo
mfz
Vc.
4 4
gli altri
mfz (div.)
4 4
Cb.
tremolos get faster from here
mf
p
mf
538 Solo Vn.
mp
Vn. I
Vn. II
Va.
Vc.
Cb.
p
mf
p
mf
p
mf
40 544 Solo Vn.
f
sf
p dolciss.
(1 solo) Vn. I
1 solo
Vn. II
div.
unis.
gli altri
1 sola
Va. le altre
1 solo
Vc. gli altri
(div.)
norm. speed
Cb.
p
mf
p
mf
p
mf
p
552 New tempo q = 120 off the string Solo Vn.
mp
552 New tempo q = 120 tutti, off the string Vn. I
mp tutti, off the string Vn. II
mp tutte, off the string Va.
mp Cb.
mp
mp
556
mf
mp
mf
T.
There is
Solo Vn.
Vn. I
Vn. II
Va.
Cb.
mp
mf
mp
one
joy
a
lone,
but one
that's
blessed,
mf
41 560 T.
one
con
so
la
tion
on
ly
in
this
pain.
Solo Vn.
Vn. I
Vn. II
Va.
564 T.
How
man y throng
ing
taw dry days
were missed
3 be cause of this
Solo Vn.
Vn. I
Vn. II
Va.
568 T.
end
ing;
how much
en
nui.
pizz. Solo Vn.
n
p
Vn. I
Vn. II
Va.
571 T.
A
arco Solo Vn.
f
p
f
Vn. I div.
sempre mp
Vn. II
po
et
has
42 577
575 T.
said:
“The
love
li
est
mu
sic
is
Solo Vn.
sf
sf
6
mp
6
577
Vn. I div.
Vn. II
Va.
mp
579 T.
the one
that can not
be played.�
Solo Vn.
n
sf
mf
unis. Vn. I
Vn. II
Va.
583 T.
And
I,
I
dare
say
Solo Vn.
pp
Vn. I div.
choose any note, gently swell, fade; repeat al fine, change pitch ad lib.
Vn. II div.
choose any note, gently swell, fade; repeat al fine, change pitch ad lib. Va.
43 588
587 T.
that
by
far
the
best
life
Solo Vn.
f
p
588
Vn. I div.
Vn. II div.
Va.
pizz. gliss.
mf
Vc. tutti div.
5
mf
5
mp unis., ord. Cb.
mp
593
591 T.
that can not
be lived.
Solo Vn.
mf
593
Vn. I
Vn. II
Va.
Vc.
mf
mf Cb.
mf
5
is
the one
44
595 Solo Vn.
sff
f
Vn. I div.
(non cresc.)
f
Vn. II div.
(non cresc.)
non div.
Va.
p
mf
Vc. div.
mf
5
f
mf
f
mf
Cb.
599 Solo Vn.
p
Vn. I
ff
ppp
Vn. II
ff
ppp
Va.
p
Vc.
Cb.
mf
p
mf
5
mf