Rain Worthington

Full Circle

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 that comes to my mind 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

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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

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  • 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

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    [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

    Places to Buy Dream Vapors

    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
    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
    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

    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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