Karmon/Triendl/Georgian Coi - Jen? Tak�cs: Piano Concerto, Rhapsody for Violin, Passacaglia, Serenade, Three Pieces for Strings

While Jeno Tak�cs has accompanied generations of beginners on their first foray into contemporary music, works such as his Concerto for Piano, Strings, and Percussion place him alongside the great paragons of Hungarian music, B�la Bart�k and Zolt�n Kod�ly. Getting to know B�rtok further increased the Hungarian elements of topicality, rhythm and bitonality in his compositions. The impressionist colouring and Hungarian folk music influences in Tak�cs� works went on to adopt a strict contrapuntal element following his studies with Joseph Marx. Jeno T? ak�cs was a humanist, a musical cosmopolitan and an eyewitness to almost the entire 20th century.