Following up on my previous post about pianist Joyce Hatto, her husband now admits to the fraud.
Cherished music wasn’t hers
Husband admits to doctoring CDsBy Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff | February 27, 2007
An international classical music scandal that has built steadily over the past week and flared across the Internet broke open with a confession yesterday. Now it seems the remarkable story of pianist Joyce Hatto was, indeed, too good to be true.
While she was alive, Hatto’s recording career appeared to be nothing short of a miracle. In a tale that was equal parts “Shine” and “The Natural,” the reclusive pianist, who stopped performing concerts in the 1970s because of illness, became one of the most prolific classical recording artists of her time, with more than 100 CDs to her name.
In 2005, Richard Dyer, then a Boston Globe critic, wrote that Hatto “must be the greatest living pianist that almost no one has ever heard of.” Hatto died of cancer at 77 last year, having developed, late in life, an enthusiastic following of music buffs .
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I was surprised to read that Richard Dyer is no longer with The Boston Globe. But now I recall, come to this of it, that he had retired. There was an announcement a year or so ago. Just as well, because he would have had to leave anyway, after this.