David Hurwitz has a splendid editorial about the Hatto-trick [sorry, couldn't resist that!] at Classics Today.
Alex Ross makes some astute comments: the recordings are not forgery, but plagiarism.
Soho the Dog, whose blog I' m afraid I hadn't seen before, is sniffing out some interesting angles too.
Pliable of On An Overgrown Path has been trying to get some answers from Hatto's husband and the owner of the Concert Artist record label, William Barrington-Coupe.
A commentator on one of the newsgroups demanded to know when someone would volunteer to write the screenplay. HELLO, OVER HERE!!!
Meanwhile, I've been to hear a very real concert by Marc-Andre Hamelin (and found that I do have to wait to hear him play Op.111 after all, because the programme involved only Op..109 and 110. [only?!?])...The Beethoven was beautifully thought out, the pacing and emotional shape of Op.110 especially so. But it's his exquisite-toned, other-worldly Schubert B flat Sonata that will stay with me forever.
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It always thrills me a little to read or hear a sports metaphor/pun in music circles! =] I'm surprised it's taken a week for someone to come up with that one!
Turns out Hamelin heard "her" Chopin etudes and was impressed. Two interesting things:
He later said he remembers being surprised she made the same error that Grante did at one point.
Even more interesting is that her Etude #3 (op. 10/2) is not Grante's but Hamelin's !
In his case it no doubt did not need to be sped up.
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