[…] he played with incredible smoothness and quicksilver delicacy. Sauer is a very different sort of artist, compared to many I’ve heard […] There’s no splashy, contrived passion or needless display to his playing. His very personal, introspective style brought certain qualities and musical insights that I’ve never heard before to the Schubert and Chopin selections […] Under his hands, even the music’s most bravura moments were tempered with a sort of Germanic reserve.

Lindsay Koob – City Paper Charleston SC