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Review title: Schumann in Full Flower
Product review: Sauer is considered by many the finest Liszt pupil to have left recordings. His style was caricatured by Claudio Arrau in conversations with Joseph Horowitz. Arrau dismissed Sauer as a salon player, a darling of frivolous Vienna. But Josef Hofmann (also disparaged by Arrau) gave a truer estimate, calling Sauer "a truly great virtuoso." Although Sauer downplayed his association with Liszt, we hear on this disc of live performances -- even more than in his commercial recordings released by Marston -- Lisztian breadth and nobility, and also the refusal to take oneself too seriously, the hallmark of a gentleman. Sauer preferred Anton Rubinstein to Clara Schumann, and when listening to Sauer -- still at his best so late in life -- one suspects that Robert Schumann might have agreed. A must for all music lovers.
