János Tamás, who was born in 1936 in Budapest and died in 1995 in Aarau, made an impact on Swiss musical life beginning in the 1960s. Amongst his wideranging musical activities as music pedagogue, conductor and pianist, composing came to occupy an increasingly central position. Thus his legacy consists of a compositional oeuvre of about 120 works of nearly all genres. The chamber-music compositions on the present CD cover all periods of the life‘s work of János Tamás.