Something about today’s music (Haydn Piano Trio in F Hob IV: 6, especially) immediately made me think of the 1980s/90s Bob Newhart TV series called Newhart, the series in which Bob plays a how-to author named Dick Loudon who, with his wife Joanna, runs an historic inn in Vermont.

I’m not sure why.

I guess it’s because the music is sprightly, and vaguely Baroque, very New England-y. So, naturally, I thought of the classic TV series.

That may seem like quite a leap to you. But, that’s how my mind often works – making connections.

For information about these Haydn Piano Trios, please see yesterday’s post.

Providing the music for these Piano Trios is the Van Swieten Trio, which consists of:

Bart van Oort fortepiano
Remy Baudet 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 list the probable dates after each composition below, and mention if they’re from his Early Trios era or his Later Trios era.

Here’s what I listened to today:

Haydn Piano Trio in F Hob IV: 6 (Later Trios, composed in 1784. Haydn was 52)

Haydn Piano Trio in D HOB XV: 7 (Later Trios, composed in 1784. Haydn was 52)

Haydn Piano Trio in E HOB XV: 34 (Early Trios, composed by 1771; possibly dating as far back as 1760. Haydn was 28 to 39.)

Haydn Piano Trio in A HOB XV: 35 (Early Trios, composed by 1771; possibly dating as far back as ca. 1764-65. Haydn was 32 to 39.)

Haydn Piano Trio in F Minor HOB XVF1 (Early Trios, composed by 1760. Haydn was 28.)

No YouTube clip can be found for this oddly numbered Piano Trio. Sorry.

All told, I’m not sure these Piano Trios, other than reminding me of one of my favorite TV series, are all that memorable. The first movements of each were my favorites. After that, they all seemed somewhat the same.

But I’m glad I listened to them.