Johannes Wildner
The Austrian conductor Johannes Wildner, whose career extends across almost the whole or Europe and includes symphonic and operatic aspects, has an unusual background: he spent the first part of his career as an orchestral violinist before turning to conducting. Wildner was born in 1956 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria. As a university student in Vienna and in Parma, Italy, he explored conducting, violin, and musicology. He played the violin first and spent some years in the renowned violin sections of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. His first chief conductor position was with the Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Košice, from 1990 to 1993. From there he moved on to the Prague State Opera (1994-1995) and the Leipzig Opera (1996-1997). From 1997 to 2007, Wildner was general music director of the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Westphalia in Germany. From 2010 to 2014, he was principal guest conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra in London, and since 2014 he has been director of the Opera Burg Gars Festival in Austria, where he has led performances of Weber's Der Freischütz, Verdi's Don Carlos and Otello, and, in 2017, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. He has also held recurring positions with the Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna and has toured Mexico with that group.
Wildner has been an unusually indefatigable and peripatetic guest conductor, with his long list of appearances including those at the Royal Philharmonic and London Philharmonic in London, the Russian State Symphony Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in Russia, and ensembles in Italy, Japan, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, Croatia, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, as well as in Germany and his native Austria. His large catalog of recordings, numbering over 100, has appeared predominantly on the Naxos, Dutton Laboratories, and CPO labels; on CPO he issued a recording of Johann Nepomuk David's Symphony No. 2 and Symphony No. 4 with the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien in 2018. Since 2014, Wildner has served as professor of conducting at the Music University of Vienna.
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Spohr : Concertos pour clarinette n° 1 & 3 / Pot-pourri, op. 80
Ernst Ottensamer, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Johannes Wildner
Concertmuziek - Released by Naxos on 17 aug. 1994
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Vivaldi / Giuliani / Torroba: Guitar Concertos
Dagoberto Linhares, Camerata Cassovia, Raymond Migy, Johannes Wildner
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 13 mei 1992
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Strauss Ii, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 4
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alfred Walter, Johannes Wildner
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 11 mei 1999
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STRAUSS II, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 7
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice, Alfred Walter, Johannes Wildner
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 11 mei 1999
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Clarinet Concertos Nos. 2 and 4 / Fantasia, Op. 81
Ernst Ottensamer, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Wildner
Concertmuziek - Released by Naxos on 19 dec. 1994
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Bassoon Concerto / Oboe Concerto / Clarinet Concerto
Stepan Turnovsky, Martin Gabriel, Ernst Ottensamer, Mozart Akademie, Johannes Wildner
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 2 jul. 1990
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Favourite Dances
Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra, Johannes Wildner
Klassiek - Released by Marco-Polo on 1 okt. 2012
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Marx : Eine Herbstsymphonie
Grazer Philharmoniker, Johannes Wildner
Symfonieën - Released by CPO on 5 apr. 2019
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Symphonie n° 9
Westphalia New Philharmonic Orchestra, Johannes Wildner
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 1 sep. 2003
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Archivi del Teatro Carlo Felice, volume 23; Johannes Wildner dirige Bruckner
Alternative en Indie - Released by Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice Di Genova on 1 jan. 2018
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Mozart: Operatic Arias and Duets
Donna Robin, Andrea Martin, Vienna Mozart Orchestra, Konrad Leitner, Capella Istropolitana, Johannes Wildner
Opera - Released by Naxos on 19 dec. 1990
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MOZART: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2
Takako Nishizaki, Capella Istropolitana, Johannes Wildner
Concerten voor viool - Released by Naxos on 6 nov. 1990
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Touching Colours (Organ & Orchestra)
Christian Schmitt, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Johannes Wildner
Klassiek - Released by audite Musikproduktion on 1 sep. 2003
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MOZART: Haffner Serenade, K. 250 / March, K. 249
Capella Istropolitana, Takako Nishizaki, Johannes Wildner
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 23 nov. 1990
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Operatic Duets for Tenor and Baritone
Janez Lotric, Igor Morozov, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Wildner
Opera - Released by Naxos on 28 jun. 1994
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WAGNER, R. (THE BEST OF)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Wildner, Michael Halasz, Uwe Mund
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 15 feb. 1994
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STRAUSS II, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 6
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice, Alfred Walter, Oliver von Dohnanyi, Johannes Wildner
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 11 mei 1999
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J. Lanner & A.J. Lanner: Hofballtänze
Johann Strauß Ensemble, Johannes Wildner
Klassiek - Released by Orfeo on 1 jan. 2016
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MOZART: Tenor Arias
John Dickie, Capella Istropolitana, Johannes Wildner
Opera - Released by Naxos on 11 okt. 1990
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Strauss Ii, J.: Edition - Vol. 35
Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Johannes Wildner
Klassiek - Released by Marco-Polo on 1 jan. 1992
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STRAUSS II, J.: Edition - Vol. 10
Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice, Johannes Wildner
Klassiek - Released by Marco-Polo on 21 mei 1991
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