Krommer/ Schubert Consort Amsterdam/ Graaf - Clarinet Quartet Op.83 & Quintet Op.95He is perhaps best known now for his clarinet concertos, to which his quartets including the instrument form a not insubstantial pendant: they, too, are full of virtuosic writing for the instrument, who placed forward in a soloistic position, with the string parts mostly moving together to accompany it. In the late Clarinet Quintet, however, the instruments enjoy a more equal balance of the kind familiar from Brahms's chamber music for the instrument:

"No One But You" and "Gigi" and his duet hit with Sarah Vaughan "Passing Strangers"

To impress their sophisticated friends

He struggled with his self-diagnosed 'revision disease' and always strove to work hard on himself and his creations" says Jakob Lehmann

eight of his songs entered the British Top 40

Around 1750

These exquisite miniatures

and things only get more appetizing when Ryo's friend Shiina joins in the culinary adventures in GOURMET GIRL GRAFFITTI

That's what I felt at that time

" says Fiona Brice

jazzy and North-American tunes with an almost Puccinian-like lyricism

well on his way to earning his King of Soul® title

is somewhere in the middle of all of this