Rain Worthington, Composer: Discography

If Only Knowing

A collection of evocative pieces that are contemplative and sensuous, mesmerizing and haunting, this archival solo piano concert performance transports the listener, dissolving what things there are into musical imagery. Available at: CD Baby

Moods: Piano Music by American Women Composers

Newly released, Moods: Piano Music by American Women Composers.

This new CD features pianist, Max Lifchitz performing music by Marilyn J. Ziffrin, Elizabeth Bell, Rami Levin, and Rain Worthington.

"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.” -- Jack Sullivan, (American Record Guide, January/February 2010)

CD available at North/South Recordings and downloads or streams available at North/South at Classics Online

North Moore Street Loft-2nd Concert

This archival solo piano concert recording is a soulful journey through a soundscape that is both minimal and lush, meditative and suspenseful - romanticism on the edge of minimalism. Recorded at Charlemagne Palestine's Tribeca loft. CD now available at CD Baby.

Shredding Glass - for orchestra (single)

"From the title alone, one would expect Rain Worthington’s Shredding Glass, performed by the Czech Philharmonic, to be a work of brutal nature, especially when put in the context of its original inspiration: the events of 9/11. But Worthington’s piece provides the listener instead with exquisite disintegration, mere glass filaments casting light in all directions, with an undercurrent of unresolved apprehension. …The texture is transparent but luminous, reminiscent perhaps of the late works of Mahler." – Scott Locke (Journal of International Alliance of Women in Music)

Czech Philharmonic, Robert Ian Winstin, Conductor

Yet Still Night - a nocturne for orchestra (single)

“Yet Still Night by Rain Worthington is a haunting symphonic composition that mesmerizes in its opening bars with glowing tonalities and deceptively simple themes. A nocturne which might be imagined in the wee hours of a sleepless night, it develops into a rich web of suspenseful moments...” -- Therese McNally, Writer and AGMA member

"...this is an urban lullaby, and the nocturnal world intrudes in growing chromatic lines and thickening textures.” -- Kyle Gann (Chamber Music magazine)

Czech Philharmonic, Robert Ian Winstin, Conductor

These seven original compositions and arrangements for recorder and percussion ensembles are proven hits for general music and beginning recorder students. For Orff-Schulwerk and general music teachers & beginning recorder students, grades 4-7.