Honegger
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) was a Swiss-born composer active mainly in France, and a member of the group known as Les Six. Born in Le Havre to Swiss parents, he combined French clarity with a more Germanic taste for structure and weight.
His works include symphonies, oratorios, chamber music, film scores, ballets and operas. Pacific 231, King David and the dramatic oratorio Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher are among his most famous scores.
Honegger’s music is energetic, serious and often powerfully dramatic, with strong rhythms and dense contrapuntal writing. He was less frivolous than the public image of Les Six sometimes suggests.
His finest works bring together modern drive and spiritual gravity. Honegger’s music can sound like machinery, prophecy and theatre all pulling on the same rope.
Honegger
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) was a Swiss-born composer active mainly in France, and a member of the group known as Les Six. Born in Le Havre to Swiss parents, he combined French clarity with a more Germanic taste for structure and weight.
His works include symphonies, oratorios, chamber music, film scores, ballets and operas. Pacific 231, King David and the dramatic oratorio Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher are among h...
DEBUSSY Jeux
DEBUSSY Images: Gigues
DEBUSSY Images: Ibéria
DEBUSSY Six épigraphes antiques (arr. Ansermet)
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
RAVEL La Valse
RAVEL Rapsodie Espagnole
CHABRIER España
HONEGGER Horace Victorieux
MARTIN Petite Symphonie concertante
Live broadcast recordings, 1948-50
Total duration: 2hr 32:56
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Ernest Ansermet
BARBER Violin Concerto
HONEGGER Symphony No. 4 'Deliciæ Basiliensis"
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7
Live recordings, 1948/49
Total duration: 71:37
Ruth Posselt, violin
Boston Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Serge Koussevitzky
Recorded in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 1952
Total duration: 72:12
Vera Zorina, narrator (Joan of Arc)
The Philhadelphia Orchestra, soloists & choruses
Eugene Ormandy, conductor
RAVEL Daphnis and Chloe – Suite No. 2 - La Valse
HONEGGER Concertino for Piano and Orchestra
BERLIOZ Damnation of Faust – Hungarian March
Studio and live recordings, 1938-49
Total duration: 72:20
Oscar Levant, piano
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
CBS Symphony Orchestra
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
