Available now at Sounds Visual Music is one of the most well known songs in the English language – Happy Birthday (aka Happy Birthday To You). Now in the public domain this recording features a group of happy people singing the song with a piano accompaniment.
Take a listen below.
For members the song is available for free download and use on broadcast productions.
Author: svm1
Albinoni Sonata in G minor Op 6 No 2
Albinoni’s beautiful Sonata in G minor Opus 6 No 2 for violin and continuo now available from Sounds Visual Music as a free download for broadcast TV producers and editors.
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer born 1671, died 1751.
A relaxing gentle piece of Baroque classical music.
Violinist Jonathan Slatter. Take a listen below.
Fauré: Berceuse Op 16 Violin and Piano
A new recording of Gabriel Fauré’s beautiful Berceuse Op 16 for violin and piano is now available from Sounds Visual Music as a free download for registered broadcast producers and editors.
‘Berceuse’ is French for cradle song, and this Op 16 work by Fauré (1845-1924) was composed in 1879 just a couple of years after the success of his first violin sonata.
Take a listen below – violinist, Jonathan Slatter.
June 2020 Production Music Update
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She Moved Through The Fair
Available in the folk and fiddle section – a new beautiful recording of the wonderful folk tune “She Moved Through The Fair” recorded with 2 violins and piano.
Composer: Jonathan Slatter (PRS) © Sounds Visual Music Ltd
Documentary Drama Violin Cues
Out now the first set of our Documentary Drama Violin cues. These are short solo violin pieces designed as links, cues and scene setters. Available to download in the Folk & Fiddle section now.
Composer: Jonathan Slatter (PRS) © Sounds Visual Music Ltd
Electro Documentary – New Album Out Now
The latest album to be uploaded to the Sounds Visual Music library is “Electro Documentary”.
A collection of intriguing thought provoking tracks all written and produced for drama & documentary programmes. Take a listen to the tracks below.
The album is available to download in completion – or alternatively you’ll find the individual tracks on the various ‘style category’ pages on the site.
Electro Documentary (Download album)
Composer: Jonathan Slatter (PRS) © Sounds Visual Music Ltd
A collection of 15 thought provoking, intriguing electro tracks designed for drama / documentary productions.
To download the music for your productions – click here. (You’ll need to log in or register)
Peter and Wendy ITV
Sounds Visual Music provided a recording of Elgar’s Nimrod from his Enigma variations for a scene in ITV’s Christmas 2016 drama of JM Barrie’s classic ‘Peter and Wendy’ starring Paloma Faith and Stanley Tucci.
BBC4 The Sky at Night – The Real Star of Bethlehem
Sounds Visual Music supplied some music christmas music for the BBC4 tv programme, ‘The Sky at Night Christmas Special: The Real Star of Bethlehem.’
Watch the episode on BBC4
The producers were looking for the Christmas carol ‘ We Three Kings’ played on church pipe organ as well as a more reflective piano solo version. Take a listen to the tracks below.
Pipe organ version
Piano version (1920s Steck upright)