HATTOGATE: LOCAL REPERCUSSIONS

posted by James Reel

    Now that the head of the English label Concert Artist/Fidelio has admitted that he plagiarized up to a hundred recordings and passed them off as the work of his late wife, Joyce Hatto, what are we to make of the Concert Artist recordings featuring Tucson musicians? Will Ozan Marsh’s Liszt turn out to be by Lazar Berman? Nicholas Zumbro’s Granados by Alicia de Larrocha? John Denman’s everything by Reginald Kell? I seriously, seriously doubt it, but I also wonder if Zumbro and the late Marsh would somehow feel slighted if their recordings weren’t deemed worthy to be passed off as Hatto’s. At least then Concert Artist would be using its own master tapes.