The Sun Was Chasing Venus is a composition for string quintet by the British composer Charlotte Bray.
It was first performed at the Savannah Music Festival on 3 April 2014 by the Dover Quartet and violist Daniel Lee.
Bray described the composition in the score program notes, writing:Driven with frenetic energy, The Sun was Chasing Venus is through-composed, vividly moving between contrasting sections.
Featuring the violas in an expressive dialogue is a slower, hazy episode which gives way to a violin solo with sparse, rhythmic accompaniment.
[1] George Loomis of the Financial Times called the piece "a fine 15-minute work" and added, "there was much textural variety and ample evidence of the composer’s keen musical ear and stylistic rigour.