London Concertante: Christmas at the Movies

London Concertante are playing Gloucester Cathedral on Thursday 17 December, with a programme built around music from Christmas films. It's called Christmas at the Movies, and the whole thing is played in the Nave, so you'll be sitting right in the middle of the cathedral's main space.

The set pulls together scores from a few different eras. You'll hear John Williams's music from Home Alone, Alan Silvestri's The Polar Express, and John Debney's Elf, alongside music from Love Actually, The Muppet Christmas Carol and The Snowman. Mixed in with the film scores are a couple of standards: Irving Berlin's White Christmas and Dimitri Tiomkin's music from It's a Wonderful Life.

London Concertante describe the evening as threading together music from beloved Christmas films, taking the audience from the golden age of Hollywood to modern holiday classics. The film scores sit alongside those timeless Christmas standards, and the night is rounded out with animated favourites and festive pieces that have become part of the seasonal soundtrack. It's a broad sweep of the holiday movie songbook, with the older classics and the more recent scores sharing the same set.

It starts at 7.30pm in the Nave at Gloucester Cathedral, 12 College Green, GL1 2LX. Tickets start from £25, and the price depends on where you sit.