Rain Worthington

Passages Through Time: The Music of Rain Worthington

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

  1. Full Circle
    Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra | Petr Vronský, conductor; Petr Nouzovský, cello
  2. Night Stream
    Antonín Hradil, violin; Jakab Látal, violin
  3. Within Deep Currents
    Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra | Stanislav Vavřínek, conductor
  4. Balancing on the Edge of Shadows
    Audrey Wright, violin; Yundu Wang, piano
  5. Shadows of the Wind
    Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra | Stanislav Vavřínek, conductor; Ivo Fišer, cello
  6. Resolves
    Carmine Miranda, cello
  7. Dreaming through Fog
    Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra | Stanislav Vavřínek, conductor
  8. 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

Within Deep Currents

Recorded by the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava, Conductor, Stanislav Vavřínek for PARMA Recordings.
Score purchase is available through Subito Music Distribution. Purchase original CD release.
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It’s a thrill to receive the recognition of a Global Music Silver Medal for “Within Deep Currents” in the composer/composition category.
“Within Deep Currents” conveys some of the feelings I have had during this epic time of a global pandemic – a sense of immersion within a flow of time and a feeling of being slowly pulled along by underlying currents, as dynamic forces exert their influences through an interplay of diverse energies. – RW

August 2020 Livestream Premiere: Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor, Stanislav Vavřínek

Full Circle

Recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Petr Vronský conductor and Petr Nouzovský cello for PARMA Recordings.
Purchase Score through Subito Music Distribution. Purchase original CD release.

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Program note: Full Circle is a contemplation of cycles of emotion that continually emerge and recede throughout life. The music is written for a subtle interplay between the soloist and the orchestra, rather than the traditional role of the soloist being in the forefront. My intention is a shifting of perceptions in which the soloist emerges from the orchestra, in much the way that intense feelings rise from the unconscious, giving voice to emotional currents, and then recede back into the subliminal. A metaphorical image is of a figure becoming discernible as it emerges from a dense mist, then recedes, blending again into the atmosphere, only to reemerge as a presence again. – RW

Within a Dance

Re-Release 2/12/2016: Dream Vapors – selected works for orchestra, Navona Records, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Petr Vronsky, Conductor
Original release 9/2014: Luminescence, Navona Records, NV5969
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Program note: Reflecting on a first invitation to dance, and the continuation of the dance of love. … a tenderness of touch; … a lingering embrace; … dancing a circular space; … a song of two. –RW

Still Motion

Released 7/8/2016: SPARKS, Navona Records, NV6050 Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Petr Vronsky, Conductor
Score available through Subito Music Distribution. Purchase CD.
Program note: The inspiration for Still Motion arose from a combination of sorting through the emotional residue of year’s end and the impatient desire to move ahead with life with a new year’s beginning. It is a mix of edgy energy, reflective sadness and strength of conviction. –RW
Video is an introductory excerpt that I created with the opening of the piece.

Dream Vapors – selected works for orchestra

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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    Paradigms

    Paradigms explores orchestral works that dive into the dramatic and expressive, ponder the impressionistic, and compare the peaceful with the chaotic, this album posits that music of all studies, influences, and methods of creation are pieces of a larger puzzle that shape the American contemporary soundscape.

    Featured on PARADIGMS are the orchestral compositions of Allen Brings, Paula Diehl, Warren Gooch, Joseph Koykkar, Howard Quilling, and Rain Worthington, with performances by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Robert Black, conductor) and Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra (Petr Vronsky, conductor).

    Includes Of Time Remembered by Rain Worthington.

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    Rain Worthington is a Sponsored Artist with Performance Zone, Inc (dba The Field), a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the performing arts community. Contributions to The Field earmarked for Rain Worthington, in support of her music are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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