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Joyce Hilda Hatto[ 1 ] (5 September 1928 – 29 June 2006) was an English concert pianist and piano teacher. In 1956 she married William Barrington-Coupe, a record producer who was convicted of Purchase Tax evasion in 1966.
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Joyce Hatto was a highly regarded pianist in her day. She was born in 1928 and rose to prominence in the 1950s, performing recitals and concertos around the UK and Europe with the likes of the London Symphony Orchestra. However, in the 1970s she was diagnosed with cancer and retired from public performances to live a quiet life in rural Hertfordshi...
Hatto's husband – known to many as Barry – was a record producer, artist agent and President of Concert Artists record label. Barrington-Coupe was devoted to his wife’s career and later confessed to being the mastermind behind the scam that duped the entire music industry.
After her final public appearance in 1976, Hatto was not heard of until the early 2000s when a mammoth recording project was revealed by a record label named Concert Artists. These recordings spanned an incredible range of repertoire: from solo works of Beethoven, Mozart and Prokofiev to concertos by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn. It was...
A few months after her passing, a listener by chance uncovered a discrepancy with one of Hatto’s recordings. On his way to work, Brian Ventura thought he was listening to Hatto playing Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes, yet his iPod reported the recording to be the work of Hungarian pianist Laszlo Simon. He reported this oddity to some music critics to...
It turns out that instead of these recordings being made by Joyce Hatto herself, they were re-published recordings issued by Barrington-Coupe under his wife’s name, ripping off the recordings of a total of 92 other pianists. Hatto’s release of two Rachmaninov concertos was actually recorded by Yefim Bronfman, and her recording of the Studies on Cho...
Jan 23, 2023 · British classical pianist Joyce Hatto – hailed in her lifetime for her exceptional recordings of Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, Chopin and other big guns – died in 2006, six months before the scandal which broke.
Sep 10, 2007 · By the time the two men met, Barry was no longer a visible presence on the classical-music scene, nor was his wife, Joyce Hatto, a talented pianist who had achieved modest recognition as a...
Dec 18, 2012 · Archie Chen is indeed the pianist “behind the hands” – in that he provides the music for the film, under the direction of the musical director Niall Byrne. Chen himself is the pianist playing in the film, and he was also charged with teaching the actress Maimie McCoy, who plays Joyce as a young woman, how to play convincingly for the camera.
Sep 21, 2010 · Anne Sebba explores life of the pianist Joyce Hatto, whose posthumous reputation became a controversial issue. From 2010. In June 2006, the death was announced of the pianist Joyce Hatto.
Feb 17, 2007 · PARIS, Feb. 16 — In the autumn of her life, decades after she had last performed in public, the British pianist Joyce Hatto was rediscovered by a small group of musicians and critics who...
