Con(cert) Artist

[m_gigena]

The Concert Artist webpage still offers Joyce Hatto cds and her bio is available   

Even though the real pianists in many of their Hatto and Fiorentino recordings have already been identified, Concert Artist doesn't seem to want to update their website not to lie anymore. And not only her recordings have been proven false, but the world is also suspicious about her biography (like studying with Backhaus, playing Messiaen to Hindemith, and others).
At the home page you can read this:

The late Joyce Hatto has provided evidence in plenty over the years of her unique abilities as a pianist and musician with quite extraordinary powers as a communicator. As the news of her passing became widely known many leading critics and commentators began to open their hearts and pen their acknowledgements of her gifts in a flood of articles and obituaries in the leading newspapers, magazines and radio stations connected with the musical world.

At the cd index they show this

This great pianist, for that is how so many internationally recognised critics have been summarising the achievement of this singular British artist, has been hailed as a particularly fine interpreter of French piano music. Whilst her Debussy and Ravel are being contemplated, discussed and accessed, Joyce Hatto's final gauntlet in Olivier Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus is now to be released in September. This is a startling performance that transcends the belief of what this huge work contains musically and raises new awareness of its possibilities.

And that is an indirect compliment to Paul Kim, as he has been identified as the real pianist in her Messiaen

The "Hatto" proved to be 2.435% digitally stretched copy of Paul Kim's
recording. Some "wrong-note-hitting" in entire performance have also perfectly matched!!

Some of the mazurcas released as Sergio Fiorentino are actually played by Januz Olejniczak, and yet you can still see them in the Fiorentino section.

[Lethevich]

I recently overhauled the Wikipedia Hatto page, which seems to have begun to gather a comprehensive list of the fakes, for anybody interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Hatto

Seems like it can only grow, if Con Artist released over 100 discs.

[not edward]

I recently overhauled the Wikipedia Hatto page, which seems to have begun to gather a comprehensive list of the fakes, for anybody interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Hatto

Seems like it can only grow, if Con Artist released over 100 discs.

Farhan Malik is keeping an updated list of all identified Hatto fakes here: http://www.farhanmalik.com/hatto/cdlist.html

[Lethevich]

Farhan Malik is keeping an updated list of all identified Hatto fakes here: http://www.farhanmalik.com/hatto/cdlist.html

Ah, coolie. I'll cross-reference it with the WP list every now and again to see if WP has anything missing. Thanks

[Brian]

Has anyone found out who did her Schuberts?

[Lethevich]

Has anyone found out who did her Schuberts?

http://www.farhanmalik.com/hatto/schubert2.html

http://www.farhanmalik.com/hatto/schubert5.html

[m_gigena]

Has anyone found out who did her Schuberts?

Taken out of context, that's a funny question. 

[jochanaan]

The Milli Vanilli of classical music?

[Lethevich]

The Milli Vanilli of classical music?

Indeedie, but with vacrose veins instead of dreads...

[m_gigena]

She auditioned for the BBC several times - and failed. These auditions
were anonymous - the pianist's identity was hidden and the judges didn't
learn who was playing until after the judgments were handed down.

Alan Walker was on the scene then, and in a recent communication to one Pianophiles member he
wrote:

'I remain puzzled as to why nobody, to my knowledge, has reported on the role of the BBC Music Division in holding back Hatto's radio career in Britain. We all knew that she couldn't play the piano very well, and her
few broadcasts were always "trial dates" leading to the Corporation's decision on her ultimate fate. She had already failed more than one audition when I came on the scene at the BBC, and in the few broadcasts that I heard her give in the 1960s it was evident that she was digging her own grave, musically speaking. The BBC then removed her from its books, and she was quite simply "unengagable" by any BBC producer.'"