Hourglass
for solo piano
Instr:
piano
Date:
2007
Duration:
8'
Performances:
Premiere 2011: Nataliya Medvedovskaya, piano, Bargemusic, Brooklyn, NY
Released 2008: Moods: Piano Music by American Women Composers, Max Lifchitz, piano, North/South Recordings
Video features pianist Nataliya Medvedovskaya stunning performance at Bargemusic.
Hourglass is a musical reflection on the passage of time and the delicacy and variable nature of its passing – as in the shifting phases of sand in a turning hourglass. – RW
Reviews of Hourglass
“Rain Worthington’s mood sketches…have a delicate wistfulness and Satie-like repose. I’m not often a fan of minimalism, but these chordal repetitions and loopings are strangely compelling. The shifting sands of ‘Hourglass’ stretch time seductively;…” – Jack Sullivan, American Record Guide, January/February 2010