In PASSAGES THROUGH TIME, composer Rain Worthington explores the mystery of instrumental music’s ability to communicate the universality of human experiences. She invites the listener into the realm of the nonverbal to reveal our primal commonality, directly touching the heart and soul with music that is delicate and subtle, yet powerful and transporting. Worthington’s music has been hailed as “a fusion of styles—ancient, medieval modality and sonorities, modernist minimalist ostinato, and classical” (IAWM Journal). Embark on a journey through the currents of Worthington’s musical streams and the emotional forces that drive her unique voice.
Track Listing
- Full Circle
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra | Petr Vronský, conductor; Petr Nouzovský, cello - Night Stream
Antonín Hradil, violin; Jakab Látal, violin - Within Deep Currents
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra | Stanislav Vavřínek, conductor - Balancing on the Edge of Shadows
Audrey Wright, violin; Yundu Wang, piano - Shadows of the Wind
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra | Stanislav Vavřínek, conductor; Ivo Fišer, cello - Resolves
Carmine Miranda, cello - Dreaming through Fog
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra | Stanislav Vavřínek, conductor - In Passages
Croatian Chamber Orchestra | Miran Vaupotić, conductor; Mojca Ramušćak, violin
View the full liner notes for the album and more at Navona Records.
Worthington places herself above all developments and draws her inspiration from the totality of music, in a fusion of styles and eras. This is the only way to create music that carries the listener as far as yearning can reach.
– Remy Franck, Pizzicato Magazine
[Rain] has the ability to state her compositional case to us directly, as it were, in absolutely concrete if mystical terms. She somehow makes clear to us how we experience the transitional, impermanent and ever shifting quality of a later modernist world.
– Grego Edwards, Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review
