Julian Lloyd Webber says that the Joyce Hatto recording scandal isn’t the semi-sweet melodrama that some are making it out to be. “There are those who are saying Hattogate is a human tragedy: an attempt by a loving husband to console his dying wife. Rubbish. Lots of people (my mother included) suffer terminal illness without pilfering other people’s hard work. Hatto and Barrington-Coupe were thoroughly dishonest, and Barrington-Coupe should be forced to face the music his wife lacked the talent to make.”