Retailing 🛍️

That worked quite well for a first attempt. Slightly soggy bottom my only criticism 😁

Served with garlic roast potatoes, some soy glazed broccoli and samphire. Sunday dinner sorted!

I have constructed a salmon Wellington. To be baked shortly 🐟

Spurs 1-2 Aston Villa. Villa’s season recovery continues. And a fantastic second goal! ⚽️🙂

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Alim Beisembayev (14 plays), Tadaaki Otaka, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales (13), Serebrier, Russian National Orchestra, Yang, Romanovsky, Chisson, Serov, Barton-Pine (10), June Christy (7), Bernstein (4)

Watched: The Hurt Locker, 2008 - ★★★★★ 🎥

Preparing for a piano concerto, BBC National Orchestra of Wales 🎵

Cellist rehearsing, BBC National Orchestra of Wales 🎵

BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff 🎵

Thursday 25th October 2025

Themes & Variations

Dmitri Shostakovich - Theme and Variations, Op. 3 (1921)
Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No.2, Op. 102 (1956–7)
Joseph Haydn - Symphony No.6 in F major, ‘Le matin’ (1761)
Johannes Brahms - Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, Op. 56a (1873)

Jaime Martín, conductor
Alim Beisembayev, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Location check in — Wales Millennium Centre
🗺 Map of area