When I was about 15, I went to the gramophone library at school to listen to some music, and chose, at random, an LP of the 3rd and 5th symphonies of Honegger, a composer I knew absolutely nothing about and whose music I had never heard before. I was instantly drawn to both works, but particularly to the 5th symphony which has intrigued me ever since and for which I have never lost that initial flame of fascination. It was only nearly 50 years later that I discovered a potential reason why this symphony has drawn me so much into its haunting sound world ? it was premiered on the day I was born, March 9th, 1951. Somehow I wanted to mark my relationship with this work and its unjustly neglected composer, and this trio is my personal homage. Throughout its course, snippets of themes from all 3 movements of Honegger?s dark and restless symphony are alluded to and developed with the ?Di Tre Re? of the title only being stated at the very end, once by each of the instruments.