William H. Barrington-Coupe [1] (born William Halford Barrington Coupe, 1931 – 19 October 2014 and known as Barry[2]) was a British record producer and music impresario.
Married in 1956[1] to concert pianist Joyce Hatto, he was jailed for a year in 1966 for "blatant and impertinent frauds".[3] He attained further notoriety in 2007 when he confessed that a large number of piano CDs that he had sold on his Concert Artist/Fidelio Recordings label were not in fact performed by his wife but were copies, in some cases digitally manipulated, of commercially available recordings by other pianists.[4]