With Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Jommelli Second Lamentation for Holy Wednesday Soloists, II Seminario Musicale , conductor Christophe Rousset Sibelius Nightride and Sunrise, Op 55 LSO, conductor Anthony Collins
8.00-9.00: Schubert Salve Regina in A,
D676 Zdena Kloubova (soprano), Virtuosi di Praga, conductor Andreas Weiser Robin Holloway Wedding March David Goode (organ)

With Rob Cowan. Regularfeatures include The Innocent Ear and a Bargain Hunter CD recommendation. Plus excerpts from the recording of Vivaldi's flute concertos recommended on yesterday's CD Review. Other music includes:
JC Bach Overture: La Calamita dei Cuori
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, conductor David Zinman
Schumann Fantasiestacke , Op88
Martha Argerich (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin), Mischa Maisky (cello)
Handel Concerto Grosso in G, Op 6 No 1 Academy of St Martin in the Fields, director lona Brown
Hindemith Concerto for Orchestra
Berlin PO, conducted by the Composer Glazunov Saxophone Quartet Quatuor Habanera
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Michael Berkeley 's guest is Russell Taylor , one half of the creative team behind the Alex cartoon strip and the Private Eye cartoon Celeb. A pianist himself, his choices today include piano works by Beethoven, Chopin and Gershwin, and music by Bach and the Beatles.

Medea Lucie Skeaping studies the story of Medea. Jiri Antonin Benda Medea (excerpt) Hertha Schell (spoken role), Prague Chamber Orchestra, conductor Christian Benda
Clerambault Medee (excerpt)
Julianne Baird (soprano), American Baroque, director Stephen Schultz
Caldara Medea in Corinto
Gerard Lesne (countertenor), II Seminario Musicale
Charpentier Medee , Acts 4 and 5 (excerpts) Soloists, Les Arts Rorissants Chorus and Orchestra, conductor William Christie

Waltraud Meier and Nicholas Carthy The German mezzo Waltraud Meier , accompanied on the piano by Nicholas Carthy , takes a break from the operatic stage to perform lieder by Schubert, Brahms and Wolf. A recital given last
November at the Wigmore Hall in London. Presented by Stephanie Hughes.

5/6. Wedding the Exotic
David Attenborough introduces more favourites from his CD collection. Today he focuses on music fusing Western and exotic traditions, including virtuoso flute-playing from Hariprasad Chaurasia , Michael Nyman 's work with Moroccan musicians and Peter Sculthorpe 's orchestral recreation of the sound of the didgeridoo. Producer Anthony Sellors

Louise Fryer 's bag of listener requests includes the string septet version of Strauss's Metamorphosen, Leo Weiner 's Suite on Hungarian Folk Tunes and, from the archive, soprano Elisabeth Schumann singing Mozart at the 1936 BBC Proms. Send your requests by PHONE: [number removed] EmaiJ via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
Post: Three for All, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ

Who Needs Two? London has five symphony orchestras and is soon to have three full-time opera houses. Also, the RSC is returning to London laterthisyearto join the National Theatre. Norman Lebrecht asks if such an abundance is beneficial or if it dilutes excellence and diffuses culture. Can it all be afforded or should we be building even greater diversity?
Send your views and questions by PHONE (from4.30pm today): [number removed], by email: lebrecht.live@bbc.co.uk or by Post to Lebrecht Live, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A1AA ProducerTonyCheevers

BBC National Orchestra of Wales Jane Irwin (mezzo), conductor Richard Hickox
Sarah Walker presents a concert given last Friday at Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. Berlioz La Mort de Cleopatre Sibelius Symphony No 2

By Jeff Young.
Jeff Young left his parents' suburban Liverpool home at 17 and hitched to Paris in search of an alternative, bohemian way of living. This is a tale of decadence, absinthe and broken dreams, interwoven with the desperate love story of poets
Verlaine and Rimbaud. With poet Gerald Mangham and absinthe expert Peter Shaff.

On 16 July 2003 Paul Heritage 's life was changed when his lover Carlos Calchi , a Brazilian theatre director who wanted to change people's lives, was gunned down in a random act of slaughter by those he wanted to help. This montage is the result of Heritage and producer Kate Rowland 's search for an answer, combining elements of the murder investigation and interviews with artists, politicians and prisoners.

1/5. With Donald Macleod.
If I Climb the Rocky Mountains (Eight Hungarian Folk Songs); Kossuth; Two
Portraits; Seven Sketches, Op 9b (excerpts); String Quartet No 1 Rptd from Mon

With Louise Fryer.
The Danish National Choir, conducted by Stefan Parkman , perform music by Bartok, Ligeti, Per Norgard , Grieg and Lange-Miiller, and a selection of Scandinavian folk songs.
1.55 Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat, Op 97 (Archduke) 2.35 Couperin Huiti ème Ordre in B minor (Pieces de Clavecin) 3.05 Maya le Roux-Obradovic Ballade de la Vallée
Magique 3.20 Zelenka Capriccio in F
3.40 Bach Cantata No 14 7: Herz und Mund und TatundLeben 4.10 Debussy Clairde Lune 4.15Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op 28 4.25 Piazzolla Tango: Primavera Portena 4.30 Bobescu Three Symphonic Pieces 4.45 Galuppi
Organ Sonata No 1 in B flat 4.50 K Forster Beatus Vir 5.00 Telemann Overture-Suite in G (Bourlesque de Quixotte)
5.15 Avison Concerto Grosso No 2 in G
5.30 Laub Silent, My Heart, the Sun Sets
5.35 Ravel Introduction and Allegro
5.45 F Mendelssohn Songs without Words, Op 6 5.55 Wolf Italian Serenade
6.05 Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E flat
6.25 Schubert Symphony No 6 in C, D589