Radio 3 Requests

Vintage singing features heavily in this week's picks, with performances by Victoria de los Angeles, counter-tenor Alfred Deller, and Gundula Janowitz's much-loved recording of Strauss's Four Last Songs. Plus composer John Metcalf on why Ravel's Piano Concerto is his idea of musical heaven, and an unusual version of Saint-Saëns's orchestral favourite 'Danse Macabre'. With Fiona Talkington.