Elektra/Nonesuch: 79181-2 (on container: 9 79181-2). The 1st work for girls' chorus, reed organ, and string quartet (originally for children's voices and piano); the 5th work for voice, string quartet, and turntables; the remainder for string quartet. Swedish text of Winter was hard (1st work) by Bo Carpelan; Japanese text of Forbidden fruit (5th work) by Reck. Compact disc. Track listing, credits, and texts of the vocal works with English translations ([8] p. : ill.) inserted in container. Recorded Nov. 1987 at Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, Mass., except Winter was hard recorded Jan. 1988 at St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco, Calif., and Forbidden fruit recorded Sept. 1987 at Russian Hill Recording, San Francisco, Calif., and Metal Box Studio, Tokyo. Kronos Quartet (David Harrington, John Sherba, violins ; Hank Dutt, viola ; Joan Jeanrenaud, violoncello) ; San Francisco Girls Chorus (1st work) ; Earl L. Miller, reed organ (1st work) ; Christian Marclay, turntables (5th work) ; Ohta Hiromi, voice (5th work). The 1st work sung in Swedish; the 5th work spoken in Japanese, with wordless singing.