Gramophone magazine has unearthed what one sound recording expert describes as "the biggest attempt at recording theft ever." Thanks to the internet, the formerly obscure British classical pianist Joyce Hatto had become a critical favourite shortly before her death last year. The problem is, experts who have analysed her recordings say, is that they're not original at all.
It was already one of the strangest stories the classical music world had witnessed. But the discovery of the late English pianist Joyce Hatto as the greatest instrumentalist almost nobody had heard of, appears to have taken a bizarre, even potentially sinister turn.