Joyce Hatto (5 September 1928 - 29 or 30 June, 2006) was a minor British pianist and piano teacher whose performing career spanned some twenty-five years, coming to an end in 1976. Late in her life, doctored copies of commercial recordings made by other pianists were released under her name, earning her high praise from critics. The deception only came to light a few months after her death.
A growing international audience feels that way about the British pianist JoyceHatto, who died June 29 at her home in Royston, Hertfordshire, after a long struggle with cancer. www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/07/04/...
Serge Krish, who had been a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin, was one of
Joyce Hattos early teachers. www.concertartistrecordings.com/FeaturedArtists/joycehatt...
Very much an artist for whom the spirit of the composer came first, JoyceHatto's rich legacy will surely be considered and discussed by all serious musicians long after her recent passing. www.gramophone.co.uk/newsMainTemplate.asp?storyID=2589&ne...
There was a further meeting between
JoyceHatto and Burnett James later the same
year when he approached different aspects. www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2003/Mar03/Hatto.htm
Marathon feats: the
Hatto hallmark. As Cortot could do Chopins
Prludes and two books
of studies at a sitting, so she could
do a Chopin recital tour playing 26
dates in 34 days (1958-59). www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2006/Jan06/Hatto2_recordings...
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Joyce Hatto. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Hatto
Hatto's husband, William Barrington-Coupe, admitted this week that he had heavily doctored recordings attributed to her by his record label, by inserting sections of recordings made for other labels by a few pianists in history. music.guardian.co.uk/classical/comment/story/0,,2024790,0...
Last week , a critic at the Gramophone magazine got surprise when he put a Hatto recording of Lizt's 12 Transcendental Studies into his computer. www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/02/itunes-finge...