Arthur Honegger

Honegger wrote his Second Symphony for Paul Sacher and the Basel Chamber Orchestra. Its principal forces are strings, with a trumpet that may reinforce the chorale near the end of the finale. Three movements move...

Honegger's Third Symphony uses Latin liturgical headings for three entirely instrumental movements: Dies irae, De profundis clamavi and Dona nobis pacem. Written at the end of the Second World War, it confronts...