MP3 Ronald J. Williams - From My Heart - Vol. 1 - Songs without words

Sublime piano solos from the heart of the composer. This is a wonderful collection that reflects the Colorado magic of the composer's home as well as evoking memories of the warm, soft, fragrant, southern summer nights of his youth.

11 MP3 Songs in this album (45:19) !
Related styles: Easy Listening: Mood Music, Classical: Piano solo, Featuring Piano

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Iâve been waiting for this music a long time. A superbly rendered compilation of piano improvisations and instrumentals that penetrate and sustain the quiet places of the soul, disarmingly clean and unpretentious, each piece is a rich, textured, and evocative expression of mood, but itâs much more than that. For me itâs also the sweet affirmation of gifts and talent I first heard many years ago, a testament to perseverance, a manifestation of the elusive ghosts of creative process.

You see, composer and musician Ron Williams and I go way back. We grew up together; did dumb things; chased girls; made music and dreamed our dreams. And while the individual pieces in this wonderful collection have titles reflecting the Colorado magic in which Ron Williams has lived for many years, they just as easily for me evoke the warm, soft, fragrant, southern summer nights of our shared youth. A natural musician, adept at cello, bass, baritone horn, and guitar in his teens, Ron was playing piano improvisations then, understand, certainly not as fleshed out as these, (the man has achieved a BA in Music Theory and a Masters in Composition in the interim,) but beautiful, inviting, tantalizing all the same, and I have never forgotten. Thereâs Aspen, to be sure, but Magnolia, too; Jasmine and Cicadas. My simple admonition then, and every opportunity since, has been: play something; just play something. Between our infrequent meetings through the years there were only echoes.

You hear it. At times soothing, haunting, contemplative, and graceful, âMusic from the Heartâ is a kind of deliverance, a setting free, and yes, even an escape, if you will. You will be humming these melodies long after listening. But perhaps more than anything it is a promise kept. It is mine, but I am happy to share.
Samuel Harrison
Ormond-by-the-Sea, Florida
November, 2010