His discography covered repertoire from Bach to David W. Guion and included major piano concertos from Mozart to Rachmaninoff and Liszt to Prokofiev.

[3] After demonstrating perfect pitch on a toy xylophone in kindergarten, Janis studied with Abraham Litow until he was 8 years old.

Horowitz had advised Janis to concertize to build self-confidence and stage presence, so he postponed his successful Carnegie Hall debut until 1948.

[6] In 1967, Janis accidentally unearthed what The New York Times called "That rarest of all musical items...",[7] two previously unknown manuscripts of published Chopin waltzes (Op.

[3] Sony also released an eleven-CD set in 2011 which reissued the LPs he made for RCA and Mercury Records during the 1950s and 1960s.

He was featured in the PBS documentary, by Emmy-award-winning producer Peter Rosen, The Byron Janis Story, which highlighted his struggles with arthritis.