Vienna-based violinist and contemporary music specialist Weiping Lin … shows remarkable control in the fearsome technical demands of Xnoybis (1964), producing a mesmerising account that seems to illuminate pitches from different perspectives … Lin alternates the two later pieces with agile performances of Scelsi’s early divertimentos, slipping in and out of their references to Romanticism and folk music with ease and wit. Her vibrato is clean and responsive and her phrasing immaculate, and she’s a passionate advocate for all the disc’s varied music.
The Strad
Weiping Lin encounters both of these methods with phenomenal playing skills... Weiping Lin's play is captivated by the many nuances that she gives to the carefully honored beats or minimal variations of the vibrato, in order to shape the music out of the conditions of sound and harmony, ultimately undermining the contoured pitch perception...
Stefan Drees / Musik der Zeit
Weiping Lin, Vienna-based specialist for new music, endows the works with fragile sound beauty and wrestles the listener's utmost concentration. Inspiring!
Wiener Zeitung
The violinist Weiping Lin from Taiwan, who studied at the Vienna University of Music, is subtly and confidently dealing with two almost opposite forms of virtuosity: the rhapsodic-melismatic style of divertimenti and the microtonal exploration of the tonal interior of later compositions.
Österreichische Musikzeitung
...Weiping Lin was able to show at her solo performance how much she is familiar with contemporary music and how apparently she can master technical difficulties...
Elisabeth Ritonja / European Cultural News
...The superb soloist Weiping Lin showed great musicality and a wonderfully singing tone…
Neue Kronen Zeitung
… stupendous technique und interpretational certainty for the solo part of Beethovens violin concerto …
Kleine Zeitung
Weiping Lin excelled together with Harald Ossberger in the great Partita written by Witold Lutoslawski …
Wiener Zeitung