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
Recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Petr Vronský conductor and Petr Nouzovský cello for PARMA Recordings.

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In Passages – violin soloist & string orchestra

Video features the PARMA recording by the Croatian Chamber Orchestra with Miran Vaupotić, Conductor, and Mojca Ramušćak, violin soloist.
Program Note: As with most of my works, the music arises from the emotional experience of life. I think of this as a reflection on the passages of emotion — that ebb and flow of the feelings that continually emerge and recede repeatedly throughout life. The music is written to balance the interplay between the soloist and the orchestra, rather than the traditional role of the soloist being in the forefront. The soloist should seem to emerge from the orchestra in much the way that intense feelings seem to surface from the unconscious, giving voice to our inner emotional currents, and then recede back into the chorus of the subliminal. – 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

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