Private Passions - Leslie Caron

Michael Berkeley's guest is French actress and former dancer Leslie Caron, who got her big break starring with Gene Kelly in An American in Paris, and went on to become one of the most successful Hollywood musical stars of the 1950s. Her acting career has continued with films such as The L-Shaped Room, Damage and Chocolat, and she is about to return to the musical stage in Sondheim's A Little Night Music. Leslie's choices include music from her early years as a dancer, including excerpts from Stravinsky's Petrushka, Henri Sauguet's les forains. There are some of her favourite songs - Loesser's Baby it's cold outside, Weill's Alabama Song and Yves Montand's ballad A bicyclette. There is also an excerpt from Bach's Cello Suite in C, BWV1009, played by Yo-Yo Ma, as well as Madame Armfeldt's song Liaisons from Sondheim's A Little Night Music. M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP) Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 Track 10 Dur: 25s Stravinsky: Petrushka (Scene 3 - At the Moor's house) London Symphony Orchestra Claudio Abbado (conductor) Stravinsky DG 435 085 CD Tracks 4-5 Dur: 6m31s Frank Loesser: Baby it's cold outside Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five Ella Fitzgerald CLASSICS 1134 Track 15 Dur: 2m40s Sauguet: Les forains (Petite fille a la chaise and Galop final) Toulose Capitole Orchestra Michel Plasson (conductor) Sauguet Les forains EMI 763204-2 Tracks 5, 11 Dur: 2m22s Kurt Weill: Alabama Song (Rise and Fall of the State of Mahagonny) Lotte Lenya (voice) orchestra conducted by Roger Bean Lotte Lenya CBS MK 42658 Track 17 Dur: 4m09s Yves Montand: A bicyclette (Pierre Barouh/Francis Lai) A bicyclette MERCURY 536 157-2 Track 1 Gershwin: An American in Paris (excerpt) New York Philharmonic Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) Gershwin SONY MK 52240 Track 2 Dur: 4m48d Stephen Sondheim: A Weekend in the Country (A Little Night Music) The Original London Cast recording Ray Cook (musical director) A Little Night Music RCA RCD 15090 Track 9 Dur: 6m22s Bach: Bourrees 1 and 2 (Cello Suite in C, BWV1009) Paul Tortelier (cello) HMV 572749-2 CD1 Track 17 Dur: 4m03s.