Hewitt’s spacious, uncluttered approach revels unashamedly in the pianism while still letting the original songs sing. The real treats are Hewitt’s own arrangements...In all, this beautifully recorded recital is a gift to all song-loving pianists who wrestle with the instrument’s stubbornly percussive nature.

Sometimes this pianist can hold you at arm’s length and leave you admiring but uninvolved. Here, she opens her soul. It’s a very personal record in its choice of repertoire and in its execution.

Hewitt’s Fazioli really does sing through every phrase of this lovingly-planned and performed recital of transcriptions by pianists including Franz Liszt, Wilhelm Kempff, Walter Gieseking and Gerald Moore, with the impassioned accounts of Schumann’s Widmung and Strauss’s Allerseelen & Cäcilie proving especially moving. Hewitt’s own gently glowing arrangement of the Adagietto from Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 sits at the heart of the album, both literally and figuratively.

This beguiling sequence of transcriptions was Hewitt’s lockdown project…Each of the 23 is beautiful, and the whole has a gentle, even religious solemnity.