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Date: | Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:56:24 -0800 |
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A few months ago there was some 'discussion' when I questioned the
competency of reviewers, such as in Gramophone, following the Hatto
scandal.
I queried how the expert reviewers did not spot the huge disrepancies
in style in the Hattos CDs which were pilched from a large number of
pianists and several orchestras and conductors. I could also add
numerous recording teams!
So it is gratifying to read in the latest Private Eye (23 Nov, p14):
"... Then there are the critics who were duped, not least
Gramophone's Bryce Morrison, who eulogised Hatto's release of
Rachmaninov's 3rd piano concerto in a feature for Intelligent
Life magazine as "among the finest on record", while condemning
a Yefim Bronfman recording as feeble. As we now know, the Hatto
release and the Bronfman recording were one and the same, which
leaves Morrison distinctly egg-faced ..."
The whole article is worth reading.
David Harbin
Nottingham UK
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