Candlelight: The Best of Hans Zimmer

The Quattro String Quartet are taking over The Great Hall, University of Reading on Saturday 14 November for a Candlelight concert dedicated to Hans Zimmer. It's a tribute show, so the quartet works through Zimmer's film-score repertoire rather than performing as part of his official team.

The programme pulls from across his career. You'll hear Time from Inception, This Land from The Lion King, Supermarine from Dunkirk, and A Dark Knight from The Dark Knight. There are suites from Wonder Woman and Gladiator, Cornfield Chase from Interstellar, a Dune suite, Discombobulate from Sherlock Holmes, and a Pirates of the Caribbean suite. It's a broad run through some of the scores most of us know by heart, all stripped back to a string quartet.

The Candlelight format is what sets it apart from a standard gig. Instead of stage lights, they light the room with thousands of candles, and they tend to pick unusual settings for the performance. The Great Hall is an indoor venue with assigned seating, and the whole thing runs for 60 minutes.

Doors open half an hour before the start and close five minutes before it kicks off, with no entry once the music has begun, so it's worth getting there a bit early. There's no on-site parking, but the White Gates Car Park nearby has around 200 spaces. Tickets start from £22.58, and the concert begins at 6:30pm.