Missouri Classical Music News and Notes

"Yes, I would do it again," he said of the fraudulent recordings, which he said he produced without his wife's knowledge. "Because it made Joyce so happy. But this time I wouldn't publish the CDs."

A modestly successful concert pianist who stopped performing in public in the 1970s, Hatto died last year at age 77 and was hailed in obituaries as a neglected genius based on more than a hundred CDs produced by her husband on his Concert Artists label. . . .

Barrington-Coupe said his wife was suffering from advanced ovarian cancer by the time he had the capacity to produce CDs, and her grunts of pain had marred recording sessions. Barrington-Coupe said he searched for pianists of a similar sound and style to patch over his wife's recordings.

Over time, he took bigger and bigger pieces of other recordings, and learned how to manipulate speed to disguise the source.