William Barrington-Coupe
1931–2014William Barrington-Coupe married Joyce Hatto in 1956, was jailed in 1966 for fraud, and confessed in 2007 that his label sold falsified piano CDs.
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William Barrington-Coupe married concert pianist Joyce Hatto in 1956 and was jailed for a year in 1966 for “blatant and impertinent frauds.”
In 2007 William Barrington-Coupe confessed that many piano CDs sold on his Concert Artist/Fidelio Recordings label were not performed by Joyce Hatto but were copies, sometimes digitally manipulated, of commercially available recordings by other pianists.
Compiled from Wikipedia. Automated record.