"Marie-Luise Bodendorffs flydende virtuositet fremhæver al den gnist, der er indkapslet i disse enkle, men charmerende miniaturer" Gerald Fenech, Classical Music Daily ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ "Bodendorff spiller med en international flugt, balancesans og blød saftighed i klangen" Thomas Michelsen, Politiken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ spændstigt og perlende spil Peter Dürrfeld, Information. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Elegant, ubesværet og smidigt" Jed Distler, Classics Today "Marie-Luise Bodendorff viser sig som en intelligent, særdeles kraftfuld og teknisk begavet pianist" Valdemar Lønsted, Information "Romantisk, udtryksfuldt og legende på samme tid" Hanns-Peter Mederer, Amusio "Marie-Luise Bodendorff’s superb pianism and musicianship makes the best case on disc for a Kuhlau comeback" Classics Today Friedrich Kuhlau is known as Beethoven’s strongest advocate in Denmark and the man who wrote Elverhøj. But Kuhlau was first and foremost a pianist, one whose works for the instrument have a depth and character of their own. In the first of a new series, Marie-Luise Bodendorff reassesses Kuhlau’s contribution to the piano literature with fresh, muscular performances of music including the previously unrecorded Divertissement, Op. 37. Marie-Luise Bodendorff took her first piano lessons at the age of five and was admitted to the Hochschule fur Musik in Karlsruhe at the age of 10. From 2002 to 2007 she studied with Russian piano authority Vladimir Krainev at the Hannover University of Music, Drama, and Media. She currently resides in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has been a part time professor of piano at the Royal Danish Academy of Music since 2016.