Rain Worthington

Dream Vapors – selected works for orchestra

On Dream Vapors, her full-length solo debut on Navona Records, Rain offers a selection of her orchestral works, presenting intense dreams, intangible perceptions, and musically evocative elaborations.

Rain Worthington is a contemporary voice that demands to be heard. The present first collection establishes her as a unique orchestral exponent, an inspired artist saying something definite and compelling today.
– Grego Edwards, Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review

Dream Vapors: Rain Worthington

Image by Mark Bowie

  • SHREDDING GLASS – FOR ORCHESTRA (2004)
    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Robert Ian Winstin, conductor
  • REVERSING MIRRORS IN THE QUIET – FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA (2012)
    Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra | Petr Vronský, conductor
  • TRACING A DREAM – FOR ORCHESTRA (2009)
    Russian Philharmonic Orchestra | Ovidiu Marinescu, conductor
  • FAST THROUGH DARK WINDS – FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA (2013)
    Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra | Petr Vronský, conductor
  • WITHIN A DANCE – A TONE POEM OF LOVE – FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA (2012)
    Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra | Petr Vronský, conductor
  • YET STILL NIGHT – A NOCTURNE FOR ORCHESTRA (2001)
    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Robert Ian Winstin, conductor
  • OF TIME REMEMBERED – FOR ORCHESTRA (2011)
    Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra | Petr Vronský, conductor

    • All Artist’s proceeds will support an Alzheimer’s research organization.

    [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

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    Shredding Glass

    Re-Release 2/12/2016: Dream Vapors – selected works for orchestra, Navona Records, NV6025
    Released 2008: Masterworks of the New Era, Volume 12 – ERMMedia ERM-6827
    Recorded 2006: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Ian Winstin, Conductor

    Program note: Shredding Glass began as an immediate cathartic response to the events and images of September 11, 2001. It was not until several years had passed that I was able to complete the work. To me this piece represents the essence of an emotional remembrance of how a sense of time and timelessness unfolded while coping with the realization, heartbreak and impact of this catastrophic event. I believe the music is ultimately about transcendence. – RW