McCawley gives a fine account of the Wanderer Fantasy, with an atmospheric account of its brooding slow movement, and a scherzo that’s as light on its toes as it ought to be…He’s very good in the Liszt arrangements, too, handling the final apotheosis of ‘Die junge Nonne’ superbly, and not holding back on the sometimes overblown climaxes in the remaining songs…This pianist’s intelligent and sensitive playing affords a good deal of listening pleasure.

There is much to admire in McCawley’s attention to detail. But he falls far short of the kind of drama and poetry that inform Mitsuko Uchida’s accounts.

Of the song selection of five Lieder arranged by Liszt, which form a central panel to the recital, Du bist di Ruh is most remarkable for its interior expression. As to the generally fast Wanderer Fantasy, it is full of intelligent observation but doesn’t quite sustain the argument across its span; here McCawley’s impetuosity is somewhat misplaced. An ambitious Schubert disc, creditably done.