A beautiful review and 4/4 stars for my CD in Ritmo – thank you Inés Ruiz Artola!

“Pina Napolitano’s in-depth exploration of Schoenberg’s works for solo piano… shows that this music requires at the same time a thorough analysis and a clear expressive intent. It is not a paradox, as Pina herself explains: interpreting these pieces, besides the millimetric accuracy when executing each note in their subsequent polyphonic structures, one must seek to convey also the expressive dramatic character… “Philology and romanticism”, so accurately and timely, define Pina Napolitano’s approach to Schoenberg’s music. Those who tell us that Central and Mediterranean Europeans cannot understand each other, should listen to the Viennese master proposed by this Italian pianist, a perfect synthesis of dissection (microcellular rather than cellular) and expressive sensitivity (almost heartbreaking, disturbing); a Schoenberg that in her hands is not a merely an “historically necessary” transition, but one of the most significant contributions to the history of contemporary music. And anyone who does not believe it, anyone who thinks that the music of the Viennese master is cold, distant and unfathomable, should listen to this interpretation. Certainly you will change your mind. Without a doubt: Schoenberg is not dead.”