Kathryn Woodard, piano ; Shanghai Quartet (1st work) ; Margaret Leng Tan, voice (Sprechstimme) and toy orchestra (2nd work) ; Frank Su Huang, violoncello (3rd work)
Compact disc
Program notes by Kathryn Woodard and Margaret Leng Tan, biographical notes on the performers, and text of the 2nd work with English translation (24 unnumbered pages : illustrations) inserted in container
Recorded Apr. 4-5, 2006, Frymire Auditorium, Annenberg Presidential Conference Center, Texas A & M University (1st work); Aug. 10, 2006, at Classic Sound, New York (2nd work); and 1983, at Shanghai Recording Studio, Shanghai, China
The 2nd work spoken in Chinese
Four studies of Peking opera (29:20) -- Wrong, wrong, wrong! (11:45) -- Yi feng = Lost style (12:36)