
Love songs. Transcriptions for piano of vocal works by Bach, Falla, Fauré, Gershwin, Gluck, Grainger, Grieg, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss; Mahler’s Adagietto Angela Hewitt, piano Hyperion CDA68341 ★★★★✩ Ubiquitous in the era of Hausmusik, transcriptions and arrangements for solo piano are not heard often on the concert stage owing to the depth and strength of the repertoire written originally for the instrument. Here Angela Hewitt gives us a frankly small-r romantic collection of love-song Lieder as rendered purely pianistic by various transcribers, including herself. Gentle selections (including Schubert’s famous Serenade) go well; sometimes pianistic elaboration (as toward the end of Liszt’s…