I listened to these compositions on repeat today, probably 2-3 times at least.
It’s possible I liked this particular CD so much because a lot of these Piano Trios were from Haydn’s “Later Trios” period. He was slightly older, more mature.
Maybe he figured out how to write Piano Trios by that point.
Whatever. This is excellent music.
Providing the music for these Piano Trios is the Van Swieten Trio, which consists of:
Bart van Oort fortepiano
Franc Polman violin
Jaap ter Linden cello
Here’s a list of Haydn’s piano trios. The are referred to by their Hoboken catalog names, and their date of composition is not always certain. So I’ll Continue reading