Live candlelit concert by the Aurora String Quartet of Christmas carols and themes from Christmas films such as Love Actually and Home Alone.
Candlelight: Christmas Movie Soundtracks comes to Hull Minster on Thursday 17 December, part of the global series of live concerts put on by Fever. The whole thing is built around taking music out of traditional concert halls and into unusual spaces, and this one lands in the Minster, a 700-year-old Grade I listed building that's England's largest parish church by floor area. The room is filled with thousands of flickering candles, with a local string quartet playing at the front.
For this particular night, the set is all about Christmas movie soundtracks. Themes from films like Love Actually and Home Alone are played by the quartet, so it's the kind of music you've heard in the background of a dozen different Christmas films, just stripped back to strings. The Candlelight series does this with a wide range of repertoire — tributes to Vivaldi, Mozart and Beethoven, contemporary names like Queen, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran, and everything from jazz and soul to pop and film soundtracks. They've done special editions too, like a Bridgerton night with Netflix and Shondaland and The Wizard of Oz with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Experiences.
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The quartet on the night is the Aurora String Quartet, a local group. The concert lasts an hour, and the doors open 45 minutes before it starts, so you've got plenty of time to get in and settle before the music begins. Tickets are £17.50, and the show runs from 7:00pm on Thursday 17 December at Hull Minster, S Church Side, Hull HU1 1RR.
