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