{"id":5733,"date":"2013-01-24T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=5733"},"modified":"2013-01-31T19:33:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T19:33:19","slug":"the-great-piano-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/video-picks\/the-great-piano-scam-5733\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Piano Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/hatto-scam.jpg\" title=\"Joyce Hatto - The Great Piano Scam\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" \/>British concert pianist Joyce Hatto had a breakdown on stage in 1976 and did not play again in public for 25 years. In her late 70s, she apparently made a miraculous comeback. She was playing complete cycles of Rachmaninoff concertos, Mozart sonatas, Beethoven sonatas, Liszt Transcendental Etudes, and many other compositions. She was hailed as the greatest British pianist of the 20th Century. After she had died in 2006, however, it came to light that not all was as it seemed. Watch and see how the situation developed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bSaGMaA3eA4?rel=0&#038;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joyce_Hatto\" target=\"ext\">Joyce Hatto &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British concert pianist Joyce Hatto had a breakdown on stage in 1976 and did not play again in public for 25 years. In her late 70s, she apparently made a miraculous comeback. She was playing complete cycles of Rachmaninoff concertos, Mozart sonatas, Beethoven sonatas, Liszt Transcendental Etudes, and many other compositions. 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