"Adam’s Dream was composed specifically for Adam Walker and members of the Navarra Quartet. I used the following well-known quotation from Walt Whitman as its starting point: “Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.” The work, which puts Adam and his flute centre stage, is in one movement and moves quickly between improvisatory passages of solo flute, or accompanied flute, to passages where the flute becomes properly integrated with the strings.

Framing the many changes of mood are three main sections:

1) a melting pot of ideas, somewhat like a sonata exposition,

2) a more sustained slow section, and

3) a lively scherzo-like finale that eventually leads full-circle back to a final version of the flute's opening gestures.

I have for many years been a devoted admirer of Adam’s playing, hence wanting to have his name in the title, and am thrilled that he is joined by members of the Navarra Quartet for this first performance in Weesp today."

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Simon Roland-Jones