Thom(p)son's the publisher commissioned them from Haydn, at a time when Haydn was running low on invention-presumably he was getting old. What I heard sounded very interesting, in that he was making trios or similar out of a wide range of Scottish airs and dance tunes which I have only heard of and played in their 'White Heather', or dance band arrangements, and browsed Kerr's merry melodies wondering what gems I was missing. Like that music performed by the Palladian Ensemble ,and presumably others I have not heard of, there is a wealth of Classically arranged and composed Scottish/Italian/ French art music to be discovered in Scottish archives, not to mention Beethoven and Haydn, and I do particularly like the different Scottish forms of dance music- with strathspeys, marches, and celtic airs to add to the ususal band repertoirs. I would very much like to hear how a classical arranger expounds a basic tune with counter melodies and bass in simple ensemble form. I'ts a long time to wait for maybe 20 CDs, but tantalizing for me