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Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service

Gareth Malone helps to create workplace choirs. He feels the heat as he mentors firefighters, but bells and blue lights disrupt the auditions.

Choirmaster Gareth Malone feels the heat at Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service, as he continues his bid to find the year's best workplace choir.

Bells and blue lights disrupt auditions but when rehearsals finally get underway Gareth tries to give the backroom staff the confidence to stand tall and be heard amidst the firefighters who attack choral singing with all sirens blaring.

1 hour

Music Played

  • Karl Jenkins

    Palladio: 1st Movement - Allegretto

    Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Anvil Chorus

    Performer: Cheshire Fire Service Choir.
  • Nina Simone

    Sinnerman

    Performer: P&O Choir.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55: II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major, K. 495

  • James James

    Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: VI. Air

    Performer: Aradia Ensemble.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Les Contes DÂ’Hoffman

    Performer: Staatskapelle Dresden.
  • Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service choir Auditionees

    London's Burning

  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Danse Macabre in G Minor, Op. 40

    Performer: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: James DePreist.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Tito Maniol: Combatta un gentil cor

    Performer: Maria Keohane. Performer: Niklas Eklund. Performer: Wasa Baroque Ensemble.
  • Philip Glass

    Facades

  • Arvo Pärt

    Fur Alina

    Performer: Alexei Lubimov.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Autumn

  • Donna Summer

    Hot Stuff

  • Four Tops & Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service Choir

    Reach Out (I'll Be There)

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Dances of the Little Swan

    Performer: English Chamber Orchestra.
  • Paul Dukas

    L'Apprenti Sorcier

    Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks: III. La paix - Largo all siciliana

    Performer: Pro Arte Orchestra. Performer: Charles Mackerras.
  • Orlando Jopling

    All Right in the End

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • Richard Mead

    Finding Precision

  • Bruce Springsteen & Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service Choir

    The Rising

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Cypresses for String Quartet

  • Orlando Jopling

    Night Escape

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 4 RV 383A, "La Stravaganza": I. Allegro

  • Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simon Mulligan.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Oboe Concerto in A Minor, RV 461

    Performer: Stefan Schilli.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for two mandolins in G Major, RV 532

    Performer: Bela Sztankovitz. Performer: Zoltán Tokos. Performer: Budapest Strings.
  • John Tavener

    Song For Athene

    Performer: Nicola Bendetti. Performer: Andrew Litton. Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia

    Performer: Britten Sinfonia.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act I: Overture

    Performer: Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave Verum Corpus in D major, K. 618

    Performer: Košice Teachers’ Choir.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007

    Performer: Maria Kliegel.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18 - 2. Adagio sostenuto

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Gareth Malone
Director Stuart Froude
Series Producer Rachel Morgan

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