Who is Hatto?
Feb. 17th, 2007 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylAn interesting story is doing the rounds about the pianist Joyce Hatto. For those not familiar with her back history, Hatto retired from giving public performances in the early 70s after being diagnosed with cancer, but continued to record. Many of her recordings, encompassed a huge range of repertoire, were critically acclaimed and she was dubbed "the best pianist no-one has ever heard of." Her death was announced in mid-2006.
Hatto's history, one of triumph over adversity and late won success, sounds too heartwarming to be true. Now, it transpires, it may well not be true.
According to an analysis conducted by Andrew Rose of Pristine Audio, many of Hatto's recordings appear to be digitally adjusted versions of the work of other pianists. A similar but completely independent analysis carried out by Nicholas Cook and Craig Sapp at the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music at Holloway found that a recording purportedly by Hatto almost perfectly matched a recording of the same work by Eugen Idjic.
Talk about strange and intriguing.
Hatto's history, one of triumph over adversity and late won success, sounds too heartwarming to be true. Now, it transpires, it may well not be true.
According to an analysis conducted by Andrew Rose of Pristine Audio, many of Hatto's recordings appear to be digitally adjusted versions of the work of other pianists. A similar but completely independent analysis carried out by Nicholas Cook and Craig Sapp at the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music at Holloway found that a recording purportedly by Hatto almost perfectly matched a recording of the same work by Eugen Idjic.
Talk about strange and intriguing.
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Date: 2007-02-20 08:09 pm (UTC)Re: Typo
Date: 2007-02-20 09:02 pm (UTC)