SVR Producciones is a record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 of Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an, Latin American and universal concert music.

History

SVR Producciones was created in August of 1987

1987 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1987.See also:Record labels established in 1987-January-February:*January 3 – Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

 by the Chilean composer Santiago Vera-Rivera

Santiago Vera-Rivera

Santiago Vera-Rivera is a Chilean composer, teacher and musical researcher.- Studies :...

, along with María Angélica Bustamante, with the purpose to registry and divulge concert music pieces from Latin-American composers and interpreters, particularly from Chile, but also from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Peru, Mexico, United States and Spain, among others. The label is focused on the works composed on the 20th century, covering electroacoustic, choral, guitar, piano and orchestral music.

Among the composers and interpreters SVR has made known to the public are: Carlos Isamitt (Chile), Manuel Enríquez

Manuel Enríquez

Manuel Enríquez was a Mexican composer and violinist....

 (Mexico), Adam Waite (USA), Federico Moumpou (Spain), Luis Orlandini (Chile), Armands Ābols

Armands Abols

Armands Ābols is a Latvian pianist.In 1992 Abols won at 18 Barcelona's Maria Canals, the dean of Spanish piano competitions. Three years later he took part at the XIII Paloma O'Shea Competition; he made it to the finals, ranking along the rest of the finalists second to Enrico Pompili - the Grand...

 (Latvia), Gerardo Salazar (Chile), Jürg Wyttembach (Switzerland), and María Luz Martínez (Chile).

Chilean composers and interpreters

SVR Producciones has been dedicated to rescue the Chilean concert music, registering albums of composers and interpreters of the first generation of Chilean musicians (s. XIX-XX) such as; José Zapiola

José Zapiola

José Zapiola Cortés was a Chilean musician, composer and orchestra conductor.-Life:Zapiola was born in Santiago, the illegitimate son of the Argentinian lawyer Bonifacio Zapiola y Lezica and of the Chilean Carmen Cortés. He early showed a great talent for music and studied with Fray Antonio...

, Isidora Zegers

Isidora Zegers

Isidora Zegers Montenegro was a Spanish artist and composer. She is known for her contributions to Chilean culture during the nineteenth century.-Biography:...

, Federico Guzmán, Ramón Vinay

Ramón Vinay

Ramón Vinay was a famous Chilean operatic tenor with a powerful, dramatic voice. He is probably best remembered for his appearances in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's tragic opera Otello....

, Claudio Arrau

Claudio Arrau

Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and Debussy...

, Enrique Soro, Alfonso Leng

Alfonso Leng

Alfonso Leng was a post-romantic composer of classical music and dentist. He was born in Santiago, Chile. He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, "La Muerte de Alcino", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado...

, Pedro Humberto Allende

Pedro Humberto Allende

Pedro Humberto Allende Sarón , was one of the most important Chilean composers of the twentieth century. He obtained the prestigious Premio Nacional de Arte in 1945.- Biography :...

, René Amengual, Víctor Tevah

Victor Tevah

Victor Tevah was a Jewish-Greek conductor raised in Chile. In 1961, he acted as director to the Argentine Philharmonic ; from 1966–1979, he was director to the Pau Casals Festival and Orchestra, Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and the Puerto Rico Conservatory; Tevah led Chile's Symphony Orchestra...

, Domingo Santa Cruz, Juan Amenábar, Alfonso Letelier, Ida Vivado

Ida Vivado

-Biography:Ida Vivado was born in Tacna, Peru. She graduated from the National Conservatory of Music in Chile with a degree in Interpretation in 1941 and took a position on the faculty at the National Conservatory. She continued her studies in composition with Domingo Santa Cruz and Free Focke...

, among others. Also SVR producciones has released the albums of later generations (s. XX-XXI): Fernando García, Carlos Botto, Próspero Bisquertt, Cirilo Vila, Luis Advis

Luis Advis

Luis Advis Vitaglich was a Chilean professor of philosophy, and a noted composer of traditional and New Chilean music. He was officially recognized as a Fundamental Figure of Chilean Music in 2003.-Biography:...

, Acario Cotapos, Carlos Isamitt, Juan Orrego Salas, Carlos Riesco, Miguel Letelier, Jorge Urrutia Blondel, Federico Heilein, Juan Lemann, Violeta Parra

Violeta Parra

Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a notable Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist...

. Among the interpreters are Claudia Parada (Chilean soprano), Luis Orlandini (Chilean guitarist), Alfredo Mendieta (Chilean flutist), María Luz Martínez (Chilean singer), Carlos Pérez

Carlos Pérez

Carlos Pérez or Carlos Perez is the name of:*Carlos Andrés Pérez , President of Venezuela*Carlos Pérez , retired MLB player*Carlos Pérez , Spanish flatwater canoer and former world champion...

 (Chilean guitarist), Guillermo Lavado (Chilean flutist), Ximena Cabello (Chilean pianist), Cecilia Frigerio (Chilean singer).

American and European composers and interpreters

SVR Producciones has also released works of talented American and European composers like Celso Garrido Lecca

Celso Garrido Lecca

Celso Garrido Lecca is a Peruvian composer. He was born in Lima and studied composition with Rodolfo Holzmann in Peru's National Conservatory. He concluded his studies in Chile. He was admitted into Universidad de Chile's Theathre Institute as composer and music advisor, and worked there for 10...

 (Peru), Alberto Ginastera

Alberto Ginastera

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.- Biography :...

 (Argentina), Carlos Guastavino

Carlos Guastavino

Carlos Guastavino was an Argentine composer.Carlos Guastavino was born in Santa Fe Province, Argentina. He studied music in Santa Fe with Esperanza Lothringer and Dominga Iaffei, and in Buenos Aires with Athos Palma...

 (Argentina), Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...

 (Brazil), Claudio Santoro

Cláudio Santoro

Cláudio Franco de Sá Santoro was an internationally renowned Brazilian composer and violinist.-Early life:...

 (Brazil), Camargo Guarnieri

Camargo Guarnieri

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was a Brazilian composer.-Name:He was registered at birth as Mozart Guarnieri, but when he began a musical career, he decided his first name was too pretentious and subject to puns. Thus he adopted his mother's maiden name Camargo as a middle name, and thenceforth signed...

 (Brazil), Leo Brouwer

Leo Brouwer

Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida is a Cuban composer, conductor and guitarist. He is the grandson of Cuban composer Ernestina Lecuona Casado.-Biography:...

 (Cuba), Manuel Enríquez (Mexico), George Gershwin

George Gershwin

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...

 (USA), Leopold Weiss (Germany), J. S. Bach (Germany), Joaquín Rodrigo

Joaquín Rodrigo

Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success...

 (Spain), Alfonso X (Spain), Joaquín Turina

Joaquín Turina

Joaquín Turina was a Spanish composer of classical music.-Biography:Turina was born in Seville but his origins were in northern Italy . He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid...

 (Spain), Francisco Tárrega

Francisco Tárrega

Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea was an influential Spanish composer and guitarist of the Romantic period.-Biography:Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Vila-real, Castelló, Spain...

 (Spain), Alfred Kalnins (Latvia), Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy

Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...

 (France), Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel

Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...

 (France), Frank Martin

Frank Martin (composer)

Frank Martin was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands.-Childhood and youth:...

 (Switzerland). Between the interpreters we can mention to David del Pino Klinge ( Peruvian director), Armands Abols

Armands Abols

Armands Ābols is a Latvian pianist.In 1992 Abols won at 18 Barcelona's Maria Canals, the dean of Spanish piano competitions. Three years later he took part at the XIII Paloma O'Shea Competition; he made it to the finals, ranking along the rest of the finalists second to Enrico Pompili - the Grand...

 (Latvian pianist), Quartet de Bec Frullato (Barcelona), Orchestra of Chamber of Norway, Jürg Wyttenbach (Swiss director), Per Skoglund (Swedish pianist).

Award

In 2006, SVR Producciones received the Chilean award Prize of the Critic, "For his permanent work of diffusion of the works of composers and interpreters of the concert music ".

In 2009, SVR Producciones received the Chilean award Prize of the President of Republic 2009, in the category Phonographic Production.
Premio Presidencia 2009 (in Spanish)
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