Terrific opening night for 2025-26 season @wigmore-hall.org.uk, with magnificent Matthias Goerne accompanied by David Fray in Schubert's extraordinary Schwanengesang; the pianist then provided a riveting account of the composer's final piano sonata. Sheer magic.

Just out in the UK, the best new movie I've seen so far this year… geoffandrew.com/2025/08/29/m...

The Dardenne Brothers' new film, just released in the UK, is a marvel. Some words here… #Dardennes #YoungMothers #JeunesMères geoffandrew.com/2025/08/29/m...

#bestfilminlondontoday Sep 10 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com 'Who else, warts and all, so perceptively or so generously? Therein lies Rohmer's abiding genius' @geoff-andrew.bsky.social on THE FOUR ADVENTURES REINETTE & MIRABELLE @ThePCCLondon capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/08/four...

RIP a special person. geoffandrew.com/2025/08/17/m...

If you're in or around London this summer and fancy seeing some great art, here are a few tips, pics and words… geoffandrew.com/2025/08/11/s...

If you're in or around London this summer and fancy seeing some great art, here are a few tips, pics and words… geoffandrew.com/2025/08/11/s...

geoffandrew.com/2025/05/19/b... Some lovely new music just released. Some words and samples here…

geoffandrew.com/2025/05/19/b... Some lovely new music just released. Some words and samples here…

Following my recent fairly transformative musical experience described geoffandrew.com/.../singing-... this is now my homework for next few weeks…

5/9/72: Robert Altman's Images w/Susannah York (from her novel), Rene Auberjonois More: @steverose7.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2020/ap... @geoff-andrew.bsky.social: www.timeout.com/movies/images @antbit.projectedfigures.com: lwlies.com/articles/ima...

Tired of media nonsense about classical music being to 'chill out' to? Tonight's gig by @QuatuorDanel – Shostakovich & his underrated Polish friend Weinberg – anything but. Diverse deep passions; not about tuning out. Check out a superb concert @wigmore_hall or YouTube

BOTD Bertrand Tavernier!!! MCCT5 5)Daddy Nostalgia 4)Safe Conduct 3)Life & Nothing But 2)Round Midnight 1)The Clockmaker More From: Us: midcenturycinema.org/2024/02/26/n... Volker Schlöndorff: www.criterion.com/current/post... Thrilling, w/ @geoff-andrew.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQE...

There are a few wonderful new albums out, some of them made in response to our troubled times. Words and music here geoffandrew.com/2025/04/08/b...

There are a few wonderful new albums out, some of them made in response to our troubled times. Words and music here geoffandrew.com/2025/04/08/b...

2 very enjoyable concerts @wigmore-hall.org.uk today. Viktoria Mullova & Alasdair Beatson in Beethoven & Schubert (dependably superb), then 21-year-old Korean superstar Yunchan Lim indramatic (Romantic?) account of Goldberg Variations. Not sure I (or he) wanted an encore but many in the audience did

Have any of this lot recanted and issued a full-throated apology yet?

Two terrific French films just released in the UK & London (and maybe elsewhere?) See them if you can… geoffandrew.com/2025/03/31/t...

Two terrific French films just released in the UK & London (and maybe elsewhere?) See them if you can… geoffandrew.com/2025/03/31/t...

Cinephiles and art-lovers might like to check out this (free) exhibition in London - just one week left. geoffandrew.com/2025/03/26/i...

This from Der Spiegel - if confirmed - suggests that Trump’s key appointments are all seriously compromised … www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Thinking of joining a choir? Some thoughts after an unexpected, anxiety-inducing return to amateur music-making… geoffandrew.com/2025/03/24/s...

Steven Soderbergh has a(nother!) new movie out. Here are some thoughts on Black Bag and a remarkable career. geoffandrew.com/2025/03/14/b...

Steven Soderbergh has a(nother!) new movie out. Here are some thoughts on Black Bag and a remarkable career. geoffandrew.com/2025/03/14/b...

3/9/62: Knife in the Water, Roman Polanski's stunning, disciplined debut More: @geoff-andrew.bsky.social: www.timeout.com/movies/knife... @mclayfield.bsky.social / @sensesofcinema.bsky.social: www.sensesofcinema.com/2008/cteq/kn... @spectrumculture.bsky.social: spectrumculture.com/2010/09/09/o...

If you like solo piano you might like to check out the new album by the great Mike Westbrook… geoffandrew.com/2025/03/05/p...

You may not yet have heard about this exhibition… if not, it's definitely worth checking out… geoffandrew.com/2025/02/26/o...

What better antidote to these troubled times could one hope for than Steven Osborne performing late Schubert, JS Bach, James Macmillan and a small gem by Judith Weir this lunchtime @wigmore-hall.org.uk? (The mesmerisingly superb results can be heard on Radio 3/BBC Sounds.)

BOTD Robert Altman!!! Masterpieces incl McCabe & Mrs. M, Long Goodbye, Nashville, Short Cuts, Gosford Park From Us: midcenturycinema.org/2020/07/08/n... More: @witneyseibold.bsky.social: www.slashfilm.com/1095090/why-... w/ @geoff-andrew.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/r...

I enjoyed the new opera Festen so much that I wrote a few words about it. #Festen #opera geoffandrew.com/2025/02/12/f...

I enjoyed Mark-Anthony Turnage's new opera Festen at its first night @royaloperahouse.bsky.social yesterday that I wrote a few words about it. #Festen #opera geoffandrew.com/2025/02/12/f...

No way would I miss Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera Festen at Royal Opera House, given amazing cast (Clayton, Finley, Degout, Romaniw), conductor Ed Gardner, & that it's from Vinterberg's impressive film. Glad I got tickets for 1st night; it's terrific. I was not alone in thinking so. Maybe more soon…

Finally got to see the great Martha Argerich perform live, this evening @wigmore-hall.org.uk, partly solo (glorious Bach!), partly with Yossif Ivanov & Mischa Maisky in trios by Haydn & Felix Mendelssohn. Words feel a little insufficient…

There's a new album out which I've been listening to daily (at least once!). Some words and music here… geoffandrew.com/2025/01/26/b...

There's a new album out which I've been listening to daily (at least once!). Some words and music here… geoffandrew.com/2025/01/26/b...

Sorry to hear David Lynch is no longer with us. He made some truly great films (and some not so great); he also happened to be one of the most frustratingly unilluminating people I ever interviewed. But he was a genuine one-off and cinema needs more artists like that. RIP.

The ongoing series of songs by Fx Mendelssohn & Liszt curated by Julius Drake @wigmore-hall.bsky.social is proving to be a revelation. In tonight's concert he was accompanying Lucy Crowe & Karim Sulayman; simply terrific.

My first Nash Ensemble concert of 2025 @wigmore-hall.bsky.social was as excellent as ever (no wonder I seldom miss them): Wagner, R Schumann and R Strauss – including Lucy Crowe superb in the Four Last Songs.

I really loved this new album of musical duets with a difference - and it got me thinking about some other great music pairings. Words and sounds here… geoffandrew.com/2025/01/04/i...

My 1st concert of 2025 was very satisfying, by Danny Driver @wigmore-hall.bsky.social, reliably superb in Chopin, Fauré, a new piece by Thomas Simaku & best of all, Ligeti's bracingly brilliant Musica ricercata. (A piece impossible to perform or hear when it was written: cause for hope even now?)

Wishing everyone a happy new year and all the best for 2025, whatever it may bring… (And in case you missed it, here's some of what I enjoyed most about 2024.) geoffandrew.com/2024/12/23/m...

RIP Jimmy Carter. If only we had politicians of his ambition, generosity, intelligence and capability now…

My final 2 concerts of 2024, both @wigmore-hall.bsky.social , were both superb. Jonathan Plowright's imaginative programme included sublime Brahms' Variations on an Original Theme. Carducci Quartet followed exemplary Haydn and Ravel with electrifying Shostakovich. Great end to my musical year.

Managed to compile my list of the year’s best movies, music, books etc @geoffandrew.com, finish watching Slow Horses series 4, cook the Xmas Eve roast (tricky!!), & watch a perennial favourite (Leisen’s lovely Remember the Night). Wishing you all the best for the holiday break.

As we approach the end of the year, here are the movies, music, books and art that impressed me most. Season's greetings! geoffandrew.com/2024/12/23/m...

My last concert pre-Xmas: Kit Armstrong, who @wigmore-hall.bsky.social impressed with virtuoso technique & imaginative, unusUal programming from Tallis & Handel through Mozart & Saint-Saëns to Pärt & himself (!). So refreshing to see/hear such a different (& intelligent) selection of pieces.

Terrific pre-Christmas musical feast at Wigmore Hall: Nash Ensemble, Boris Giltburg, Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber over last week, all superb. R Schumann & Beethoven featured heavily (and brilliantly).

Sorry to learn that Marisa Paredes is no longer with us. A fine actress in some very fine films, not least of course several with Almodóvar. RIP

HBD Liv Ullmann!!! MCCT5 Bergmans: 5)Saraband 4)Passion/Anna 3)Persona 2)Shame 1)Scenes/Marriage w/ @geoff-andrew.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1BW... More @laurenwilford.bsky.social: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2018/11/07/l... @chrisvognar.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...