Takacs / Karmon / Christ - Piano Concerto / Rhapsody - Music CD

His works have accompanied generations of beginner instrumental students on their first foray into contemporary music. But with works like his Concerto for Piano, Strings, and Percussion Jen Takcs clearly placed himself in a line with the great paragons Bla Bartk and Zoltn Kodly. Early he started out with the impressionist coloring and the influences of Hungarian folk music. Studying with Joseph Marx added a strict contrapuntal note to it. Getting to know Brtok further increased the Hungarian element (topicality, rhythm, bitonality). Jen Takcs was a humanist, a 'musical cosmopolitan', an eyewitness of almost the entire 20th century.