Recent Updates to the Hatto Pages

• October 31, 2025 – Complete site redesign. All Hatto pages restyled for consistency and improved presentation.
• April 27 – Added scan of newly discovered Hatto plays Scriabin double CD set.
• April 23 – Identified two movements from Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 2 as by Michael Boriskin (Newport Classics). Added WAV image files for Saint-Saëns Concerto No. 2 on the same CD and noted that this entire Concerto is transferred a half step flat.
• February 19 – Identified Chopin 1st Ballade as by Anna Malikova and the 2nd, 4th, and most of the 3rd Ballades as by Eugen Indjic. Confirmed Mendelssohn Fantasia as by Gitti Pirner (Calig). All of Hatto’s Mendelssohn recordings are now fully identified. Pianists list updated to 90 performers.
• February 9 – Identified all tracks on Mendelssohn Works for Piano and Orchestra as by Ronald Brautigam, Sergei Edelmann, and Ian Hobson. Pianists list updated to 89 performers.
• January 4 – Identified Beethoven Diabelli Variations as by Stefan Vladar. Wav file images will be added later. Identified all remaining Mendelssohn Songs without Words as taken from various Naxos CDs; the Fantasia confirmed as Gitti Pirner on Calig.
• December 23 – Identified Schumann: Carnaval, Allegro, Toccata, and Paganini Etudes Op. 10 on Volume 5 and Volume 6 as by Adam Skoumal (Studio Matous). Pianists list updated to 86 performers.
• December 8 – Identified Rachmaninoff Prelude Op. 23 No. 8 as by Idil Biret.
• December 6 – Identified 23 of the 27 tracks on Chopin Volume 1: 27 Etudes as by Vardan Mamikonian, Michiko Tsuda, Yuki Matsuzawa, Boris Berezovsky, and Louis Lortie. Pianists list updated to 85 performers.
• November 24 – Identified the ten remaining etudes on Chopin Etudes Anniversary Edition as by Vardan Mamikonian, Michiko Tsuda, and Garrick Ohlsson. Identified Rachmaninoff Prelude Op. 23 No. 3 as by Alexander Vaulin. Pianists list now at 83 performers.
• November 15 – Identified two Rachmaninoff Preludes as by Andrei Nikolsky. Pianists list now at 80 performers.
• November 14 – Identified eight Rachmaninoff Preludes as by Ian Hobson.
• October 20 – Identified Prokofiev Toccata on CD with Tchaikovsky 1st and Prokofiev 3rd Concertos as by Roland Pöntinen.
• October 17 – Identified Schubert Waltzes Nobles on Encores Volume 2 as by Michel Dalberto. Disc now fully identified. Added tempo analysis for La Danza (20% slowed intro).
• October 16 – Identified all tracks on Godowsky Volume 2 as by Carlo Grante, Marc-André Hamelin, and Ian Hobson. One track on this CD was sped up by an astounding 20%. More details and audio excerpts are on the Godowsky Volume 2 page.
• October 13 – Identified Beethoven/Liszt Symphony No. 6 as by Michel Dalberto (Harmonia Mundi). Identified Haydn Fantasia in C on Encores Volume 2 as by Balázs Szokolay.
• October 12 – Completely revised List of Pianists to show which pieces each pianist performed.
• October 10 – Identified Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet as by Bella Davidovich and Bernd Glemser. All works on Prokofiev Volumes 1–4 are now identified.
• October 8 – Identified most of the Rachmaninoff Etudes Op. 33 as by Ian Hobson and Leif Ove Andsnes.
• October 3 – Identified tracks on Liszt: The Complete Works Inspired by Bach, Vol. 2 as by Karl-Andreas Kolly. Also identified all tracks on Volume 1 as by Kolly.
• October 1 – Added WAV file images for Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz (A Liszt Recital) and Venezia e Napoli (Liszt Années Book 2).
• September 23 – Identified Prokofiev Scherzo on Prokofiev Volume 4 as by Lev Vinocour.
• September 21 – Identified all Mozart Variations as stolen from Ingrid Haebler (Philips). This is the first confirmed analog source in the catalogue.
• September 19 – Identified Debussy Arabesques Nos. 1 & 2 on Debussy Volume 2 as by Balázs Szokolay (Naxos). All three Hatto Debussy volumes are now fully identified.
• September 18 – Identified Liszt Mephisto Waltz (A Liszt Recital) and Venezia e Napoli (Liszt Années Book 2) as by Janina Fialkowska. Added WAV images for other identified tracks on these discs.
• September 15 – Added WAV file images for A Recital of French Music. Identified the Saint-Saëns Etude as by Margit Rahkonen.
• September 14 – Completed work identifying all Beethoven Sonatas taken from John O’Conor’s cycle (23 full Sonatas, 5 partial, 2 mixed, 2 not by O’Conor). Revised Beethoven Volume 5 to reflect an alternate version. Added WAV images for Beethoven Volume 9.
• September 11 – Added WAV file images for Beethoven Volume 8.
• September 10 – Identified some Beethoven Sonatas on Beethoven Volume 7 as by John O’Conor.
• September 8 – Identified Prokofiev March on Prokofiev Volume 4 as from an obscure Yuri Boukoff CD. Identified more Beethoven Sonatas on Beethoven Volume 6 as by O’Conor. Identified both Franck works on A Recital of French Music as by Josep Colom.
• September 2 – Identified two sonatas on Beethoven Volume 5 as from John O’Conor’s cycle.
• September 1 – Identified most of Beethoven Volume 4 as from O’Conor’s cycle.
• August 29 – Added WAV file images for Beethoven Volume 3.
• August 28 – Identified all Sonatas on Beethoven Volume 2 as by John O’Conor. Added WAV file images for Brahms Paganini Variations on Brahms Volume 4.
• August 27 – Added WAV images for Scarlatti Volume 1.
• August 26 – Added WAV images for Scarlatti Volume 2. Identified Prokofiev 9th Sonata as Boris Berman on Prokofiev Volume 3.
• August 25 – Added WAV images for Scarlatti Volume 3.
• August 15 – Identified remaining twelve Prokofiev Visions Fugitives as by Olli Mustonen on Prokofiev Volume 4.
• August 11 – Added WAV images for Rachmaninoff Volume 3 and Scarlatti Volume 4.
• August 8 – Added WAV images for Prokofiev Volume 4.
• August 7 – Added WAV images for Rachmaninoff Transcriptions.
• August 6 – Added WAV images for Prokofiev Volume 3.
• August 5 – Added WAV images for Prokofiev Volume 1 and Prokofiev Volume 2. Created this Updates page.
• July 30 – Added External Joyce Hatto Links.
• July 29 – Added List of Pianists whose recordings were used to create the Hatto catalogue. Website launch and announcement.