His professional career began when he took third prize at the Beethoven Piano Competition at the age of 18.
Naxos describes him as "one of the most prolific artists in the history of classical music recording".
[2] Jandó recorded over 60 albums, including music by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Mozart, Schumann, Schubert, Brahms,[3] Haydn,[4] Bartók, Chopin, and many other composers.
Jandó was known for singing while playing and stopped this by putting an unlit cigarette in his mouth.
[7] He received the Franz Liszt Prize and the Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit.