Andrea Lieberknecht - Newspaper Reviews

"This top-class musician cast a spell on her enthusiastic audience with the Concert in D Minor, KV 314. Her, in all ranges, wonderful, light, soft and nevertheless rich, full sound, makes even the tiniest grace note seem so easy. Her own cadences emphasized her music style - orignal, played with wit and much suspence."
(Neue Westfälische Zeitung)

"Andrea Lieberknecht revealed, in alternation of wonderful soft gentleness and suggestive conjuration, through brillant playing and free rapsodish development, all conceivable coloring and phrasing possibilities of the flute."
(Süddeutsche Zeitung)

"Andrea Lieberknecht enchanted her audience with Jacques Ibert`s Flute Concert. The flute cannot be played more beautifully than in the second movement (Andante). Heavenly melodic lines with a fantastically agile way of producing tons and immaculate intonation….."
(Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger)

"Indisputable, the agility of her technique; full of feeling, her musicality in the second movement in which she, with warm timbre in a peaceful mood, lets time stand still."
(Augsburger Allgemeine at a performance of the Ibert Concert)

"The Fluteconcert in D Minor Wq 22 by C.P.E. Bach was the evening`s highlight, mainly because of the outstanding performance of the soloist, Andrea Lieberknecht. She interpreted the second movement with a soft, sensitive and beautiful sound, analogous to the baroque way of performance. The quick first and third movements were brillant and nimble. She set off a real fireworks, especially in the third movement."
(Weilburger Tagesblatt)

"Andrea Lieberknecht was the soloist in C.P.E. Bach`s Fluteconcert in D Minor. Her admirable technique was only surpassed by her musical shaping of the concert. She is one of the few flutists who is able to produce a sound similar to that of a wooden travers flute.
In J.S. Bach`s Brandenburg Concert Nr. 4, BWV 1049, she was able, in a remarkable way, to make her flute resound , like one of Bach`s required "Fiauti dÈcho" (Echo-Recorder) ."
(Frankfurter Neue Presse)

"Andrea Lieberknecht and Jan Philip Schulze demonstrate a blind confidence playing together, listening and reacting to each other, creating a perfect match that could not be better."
(Süddeutsche Zeitung)

"There is nothing to object to stylistically in Andrea Lieberknecht`s and Jan Philip Schulze`s playing. They agree with one another on grace notes. A very clear and articulated performance by both musicians..."
(Aachener Nachrichten)