The Strange Tale Of The Fake Pianist

“By the time she died in June 2006, Joyce Hatto was not only a sudden widespread success, she was a cause célèbre. To love Hatto recordings was to be in the know, a true piano aficionado who didn’t need the hype of a major label’s marketing spend to recognise a good, a great, thing when they heard it. But at the same time as the cult of Hatto was burgeoning, there were persistent rumours on the internet as to the true origins of the recordings.”