Adonis, Op.105

Category		Chamber Music > Instrumental - Strings
Composed		2007
Duration (approx)		12 minutes
Parts		Violin and piano
Recording(s)		Romanza
Publisher		Faber Music
Commission		Presteigne Festival
First performance		26 August 2007
Venue		St Andrew's Church, Presteigne
Soloists / Players		Sara Trickey (violin), Gretel Dowdeswell (piano)
Review		Geoff Brown, The Times, 29 August 2007
		David Matthews's 12-minute Adonis seemed of almost romantic opulence. A musical recreation of the Greek myth, the performance needed better balanced sound between Adonis's stand-in (Gretel Dowdeswell, piano) and the Venus of Sara Trickey's violin. But nothing dampened the resourceful use of a Welsh folksong, flowering in full at the end, or the flexible pleasures of Matthews's style.