[F_minor] Classical Piano's own Van Meegeren?

["MJ Watts" <mj.accounts@gmail.com>]

Glenn is laughing somewhere!

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/02/itunes-fingers-musical-fraud.html

The recordings of a British concert pianist who found fame in the last
years of her life have been exposed as hoaxes - by Apple's iTunes
music player.

Joyce Hatto died in June 2006, having become a cause célèbre with fans
of classical piano in the last years of her life. A series of
recordings showed her masterful command of a wide range of composers
including Liszt, Schubert, Rachmaninov, Dukas and more.

Last week, a critic at the Gramophone magazine got surprise when he
put a Hatto recording of Lizt's 12 Transcendental Studies into his
computer. The iTunes player identified the disc as being recorded by
another pianist, Lászlo Simon. He dug out the Simon album and found it
sounded exactly the same as the Hatto one.

iTunes had stumbled on a hoax. To identify albums it calculates a
'discid' from the duration of the tracks and then connects to the
Compact Disc Database online. The Gramophone critic tried another disc
- Hatto playing Rachmaninov - and again iTunes identified it as
belonging to someone else. Again, the named recording - by Yefim
Bronfman - sounded no different.

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Mary Jo Watts,
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