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Sainsbury's

Gareth Malone helps to create workplace choirs. The supermarket's deepest bass breaks cover with his passion for Dolly Parton. Will all the workers sing with one voice?

Choirmaster Gareth Malone returns to create harmony in five of Britain's biggest workplaces. As the contest to be crowned 'best workplace choir' continues, Gareth checks out the talent at supermarket giant, Sainsbury's.

When the choir's deepest bass breaks cover with his passion for Dolly Parton will the head office high flyers and the shop and depot workers finally sing with one voice, united by the Queen of country?

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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 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.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No.10 in B flat major

    Performer: German Wind Soloists.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra in E flat, K365

    Performer: English Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Performer: Georg Solti.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata Alla Turca in A Major #53

    Performer: Jen艖 Jand贸.
  • Johann Strauss II

    脡ljen a Magyar!

    Composer: Slovensk谩 filharm贸nia.
  • Lionel Bart

    Food Glorious Food

    Performer: Sainsbury's choir auditionees.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Claudio Abbado.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Autumn

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake Suite: Valse

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Tito Maniol: Combatta un gentil cor

    Performer: Maria Keohane. Performer: Niklas Eklund. Performer: Wasa Baroque Ensemble.
  • Tina Turner & Sainsbury's Choir

    Simply the Best

  • Noel Harrison & Gareth Malone

    Windmills of Your Mind

  • Spice Girls & Sainsbury's Choir

    Spice Up Your Life

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Minuet in G

    Performer: Pablo Casals. Performer: Mieczys艂aw Horszowski.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria in Excelsis Deo

    Performer: The Wren Orchestra.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz No.6 in D Flat Major Op.64 No.1

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No.4 聯Italian聰: Allegro Vivace

  • Franz Liszt

    Allegro Marciale Animato

    Performer: 陌dil Biret. Performer: Bilkent Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Emil Tabakov.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka No.41 in C Sharp Minor Op 63 No. 1

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
  • Dolly Parton & Sainsbury's Choir

    Bargain Store

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces Book 1 Opus 12, No. 2 Waltz

    Performer: Paolo Bordoni.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem, Lacrimosa

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: I. Morning Mood

  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March

  • Elvis Presley & Sainsbury's Choir

    The Wonder of You

  • George Frideric

    Zadok the Priest

  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C Major

  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Nightbook

    Performer: Marco Decimo. Performer: Harald Kundgen. Performer: Ludovico Einaudi. Performer: Robert Lippok.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 2 Cellos in G Minor, RV 531 I. Allegro

    Performer: City of London Sinfonia.

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Gareth Malone
Director Tim Hancock
Series Producer Rachel Morgan

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