Works, a survey
ORCHESTRA
(selection)
• 16 symphonies 1952-2015
• More than a dozen of orchestral works of symphonic dimensions and character with other titles such as Journées oubliées, Au delà, The Big Bang – And After, Georgica, Fresques mobiles, En vår gick jag ut i världen (One Spring I Went Out Into The World) etc.
• L’imprévu ou l’apothéose de Berlioz
• “…emot ett mål, fördolt…”
• A la recherche d’une musique inoubliable. Four pieces for orchestra, from the opera Tronkrävarna.
• 5 concertos 1954-1998 for violin, viola, violoncello (2) and piano.
VARIOUS ENSEMBLES
(selection)
• Musik för Lau for wind ensemble, voices and tape (1975)
• 4 String Quartets 1951, 1959, 1997, 2011
• Tableaux à trois, trio for violin, violoncello and piano (1978)
• À mon gré, septet for flute, clarinet, harp, celesta, viola, violoncello and double-bass (1978)
• Blad från mitt gulsippeänge (Leaves from my meadow of yellow anemones), number 1, for clarinet and piano (1985)
• Unter vollem Einsatz for organ and percussion (5 players) (1987)
• Coup sur coup for percussion (6 players) (1995)
• Partita for two violins (2001)
• Tre per due for two violins (2004)
• Sex årstidssånger (Six Season songs), poems by Gunnar Björling, for mezzo soprano and piano (1965)
• Hund skenar glad (Dog runs away merrily), poems by Gunnar Björling, for soprano, female choir and clarinet, 3 trumpets, trombone, percussion, violoncello and piano (1961)
• Kattens öron (Ears of The Cat), text by Lars Forssell, for speaker, alto saxophone, double-bass and percussion (1959)
SOLO
(selection)
• Two sonatas for piano (1951, 1959)
• Quatre pièces pour le pianiste (1985)
• Blad från mitt gulsippeänge (Leaves from my meadow of yellow anemones), number 2, for harpsichord (1988)
• Klarinettstudie 59 (1959)
CHORAL/ORATORIO
(selection)
• Hommage à Edith Södergran for mixed choir à cappella based on poems by Edith Södergran (1956)
• La fine della diaspora for mixed choir and orchestra based on a poem by Salvatore Quasimodo (1958)
• Eine lutherische Messe for soli, mixed choir, children’s choir and orchestra after a play by Dieter Forte (1973)
• Panta rei for soli, mixed choir and orchestra based on fragments by Heraclitos in Swedish translation (1999)
• Odysseia – half-scenic oratorio, part 1 for 6 soli, mixed choir and orchestra based on Nikos Kazantzakis’ epos Odysseia in Swedish translation (2000-2003)
• Odysseia – half-scenic oratorio, part 2 for 5 soli, mixed choir and orchestra based on Nikos Kazantzakis’ epos Odysseia in Swedish translation (2015-2016)
STAGE
• Den starkare (The Stronger) – monodram for mezzo soprano and orchestra after a play by August Strindberg (2001)
• Tronkrävarna (The Pretenders) – opera in two acts after a play by Henrik Ibsen(1962-65)
TAPE
• Jerikos murar (The Walls of Jericho) (1969)
PUBLICATIONS
• Europa i musiken (Europe in Music) Stockholm 1996, Natur och Kultur (Vitterhetsakademiens skriftserie om Europa)
• Född på Krigsstigen (Born on the War Path). Autobiography. Stockholm 1997, Atlantis
• Rum Rörelse Tid (Space, Movement, Time) Stockholm 1999, Stockholm University, publication 1999:14 inst. for musicology
• Various articles and essays
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Quatre pièces pour le pianiste
Tronkrävarna (The Pretenders) – opera in two acts after a play by Henrik Ibsen(1962-65)
Bucht speaks about his music