A musical carré full of contrasts: the concert "Mozart and Gulda" at Solothurn's Stadttheater combines the classical elegance of Mozart with the unconventional freedom of Friedrich Gulda - an exciting afternoon's entertainment.
The 3rd symphony concert of Theater & Orchester Biel Solothurn (TOBS!) will feature a program that powerfully combines traditional sound and modern experimentation. The program opens with Overture No. 2 by Emilie Mayer, an early pioneer of Viennese classical music, whose delicate compositional artistry serves as a fine introduction. This is followed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Prague Symphony" (No. 38 in D major) - a splendid expression of Viennese Classicism, full of melodic richness and orchestral finesse. The concert concludes with Friedrich Gulda's Cello Concerto (1980/81) in unconventional scoring for cello and wind orchestra, which interweaves baroque, jazz and pop elements and makes the diversity of modern concert art tangible.
Under the direction of Yannis Pouspourikas and with solo cellist Maksim Barbash, the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra brings the program to life. Anyone who spends this Sunday afternoon in Solothurn's Stadttheater will enter both the history of sound and the present - through the elegance of classical music, the brilliance of its masters and the creative leap into the present.
February 8, 2026
