Candlelight: Christmas Classics

Candlelight: Christmas Classics comes to The Great Hall, University of Reading on Saturday 19 December, with a string quartet taking on a programme of Christmas standards. The whole thing runs about an hour, and the room is lit by candlelight and nothing else, so the music is the only thing you'll be looking at.

The setlist pulls from a few different traditions. You'll get the classical side with Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, the carols with O Holy Night, O Tannenbaum, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas, and the pop standards with Let It Snow!, Feliz Navidad, Jingle Bells, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Last Christmas by Wham!, and All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey. There are a couple of film songs in there too: Let It Go from Frozen and Once Upon a December from Anastasia.

The venue is The Great Hall at the University of Reading's London Road Campus, a Grade II listed Edwardian building that opened in 1906. It's a concert hall and ceremonial space with a high vaulted ceiling, rich wood panelling, and a grand organ and piano. It holds between 350 and 500 people, so it's a proper room for a string quartet rather than a huge arena.

Doors open at 19:45, forty-five minutes before the 20:30 start. Tickets start from £19 and are sold only through the Fever app and website, not at the venue. The concert is recommended for ages 8 and up, with under-16s needing to be accompanied by an adult, and the hall is wheelchair accessible. Seating is assigned on a first-come, first-served basis within the zone you buy.