i think it's an attempt to keep women from being respected artists in a field where men dominate. it's a ploy. the woman didn't need to plagarize. therefore, she is right. she doesn't sound a whit like vladimir ashkenazy. every person has their own sound. she had a definate sound of her own. why would she seek to plagarize recordings. this sounds a mite stupid for the courts to spend hours going through her recordings and culling what 'sounds like this or sounds like that.' these people are idiots. and i use the word freely, knowing that someday i may be called to account for this. well, when i do - i will ask God 'were they or weren't they?'
who has challenged any male pianists this way. especially after they are deceased. trapclap is that which someone pounds into the ground. i hope these people go deaf from listening so intently.
ps if william barrington-coupe did this AFTER HER DEATH - he is a very naughty boy.
What you write here - if it is to be taken seriously - shows just how little you appear to know about this subject. William Barrington-Coupe has now confessed to BIS that he did make fake CDs, thereby contradicting what he'd said previously, although he's not yet admitted how many of the 119 are indeed fakes. He also claims only to have done it for his wife, yet at the same tinme appears to seek to imply that she knew nothing about it; how could he have done it for her if she was wholly unaware of what he was doing in her name? Sorry, but this is just a piece of sob-story stuff that simply doesn't stand up to scrutiny. The courts won't need to spend hours going through any of "her" recordings unless the defendant challenges any of the alleged fakes by claiming that they're genuine; his confession points to the fact that he won't now do this. The evidence will be there, of course, but it is unlikely to be questioned and will only be used for illustrative purposes to help the jury form its opinion (not an easy task, since this would require professional skills not likely to be found among randomly selected jurors). But you suggest that you know what "her" sound is like - which means that you have actually heard her play live; where and when did you do that, may I ask? - and do bear in mind that she's not played in public since you were at high school. Your assumption that all pianists have a different sound is sadly misplaced; if only it were true! Do also bear in mind that the suspicions were finally aroused by someone unable to believe that the pianist playing the Mozart sonatas was the same one playing the Prokofiev "War" sonatas; now, of course, any really fine pianist will have a diffeent sound for these two very different areas of the repertoire and so they should, but the differences here were evidently thought to be wider than just that
As far as I know, about one third of these 119 recordings have now been tested and found to be fake and, although most of the pianists whose work WB-C chose to steal happen to be male, the Mozart sonatas are believed to be played by Ingrid Hæbler, so even your male-dominated argument falls flat and the only "dominant male" involved in this appears to have been WB-C himself in his presumed capacity as ringleader of this whole sorry exercise.
Sorry, Susan, but there's no getting away from the facts that we do know already, even though they are not yet complete.
Best,
Alistair
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