Rezsö Kókai was considered as “politically suspicious” in Communist Hungary. This severely affected his outstanding compositional talent. In 1933 he received his doctorate in music science from the university of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany). After the war he worked for the Hungarian radio. In his serenade for string trio the composer managed to form an impressive symbiotic relationship between elements of Hungarian folk music and an enhanced harmony based on Romanticism.
– Martin Merker
English translation: Friedrich Krauss