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WANDERINGS

Brian Woods, piano
Navona Records · 2024

“A recorded introduction to a musician of rare technical faculty and interpretive insight.”

- VOIX DES ARTS

THE RECORDING

Wanderings places Frédéric Chopin’s four Ballades in dialogue with works by Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger, and Amy Beach, tracing ideas of displacement, identity, memory, and transformation across generations.

Conceived in response to the war in Ukraine and the experience of displacement, the album explores music’s capacity to move between darkness and hope, connecting Chopin’s lifelong relationship with exile to works by composers whose music expands the emotional world surrounding the Ballades.

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23

CLARA SCHUMANN
Soirées musicales, Op. 6: No. 4, Ballade

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38

LILI BOULANGER
3 Morceaux: No. 1, D'un Vieux Jardin

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47

AMY BEACH
4 Sketches, Op. 15: No. 3, Dreaming

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52

LISTEN

LISTEN

© 2026 by Brian Woods. 

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