"Sauer's technique is impeccable but never in evidence for its own sake. From the opening phrases, one feels a friendly warmth and welcoming lightness of spirit, punctuated by gruff cadences; all of this seems true to the composer and to the music...Sauer has a keen sense for balance, at the keyboard as well as interpretively...[he] would send each member of [an] audience home smiling".
FANFARE March/April 2004

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Thomas Sauer, praised for his “eloquent pianism” by The New York Times, is active as a recitalist, chamber musician and teacher. He is a member of the Mannes Trio, and collaborates frequently with such noted artists as Midori and the Juilliard String Quartet and Brentano String Quartet. He currently serves on the faculties of the Mannes College of Music and Vassar College, and is co-artistic director of Chamber Music Quad Cities. 

The five sonatas on this disc were composed by Haydn in the years 1784-1790, a period in which he turned to the piano as his keyboard instrument of choice. They are an early reflection of the distinct keyboard style associated with his late piano sonatas and trios.