Joyce Hatto

With the music world a blaze with everyone's theory about the Joyce Hatto case, I might as well put in my own two cents.

It amazes me what kind of theories about this have popped up on the Internet. Some sound even more strange than the Kennedy assassination and Roswell conspiracies.

If this hoax/fraud is true, it probably is the biggest news in the classical music recording industry in years.

Pity the poor critic that gave her recordings a rave as everyone seems to be dishing it out on their "incompetence". Let's give them a break folks. Given the number of recordings issued and reviewed each year, there is no way they can remember similarities between every recording. I have a ton of duplicate recordings of all sorts of music and I can't recall details about everyone. There has to be a level of trust between listeners & the industry that incidents like this don't happen. Can you imagine scrutinizing every single recording that is released?

It will be interesting to see how this case unfolds and what really happened.