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The Great Piano Scam

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It was the great piano scam. Despite one or two admirable early recordings, a young pianist of promise failed to capitalise on her potential. Years later, living in suburban Hertfordshire, her all-too-doting husband tried to rectify the situation. He copied over a hundred recordings by figures as famous as Marc-André Hamelin, Yefim Bronfman and Vladimir Ashkenazy and passed them off as his wife's. Recordings that were previously dismissed by critics were suddenly lauded when the unknown Hatto's [...]

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