MEDIA REPRESENTATION IN CONTEMPORARY ACADEMIC PIANO PERFORMANCE: ALEXANDRE THARAUD’S PHENOMENON
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbmusica.2025.2.12Keywords:
Modern piano performance, Musical work, Interpretation, Representation, Media space, CommunicationAbstract
The problem area ofthe proposed article is outlined by the issue of the development of academic piano performance in the realities of modern life, marked by the search by musicians for new approaches to the interpretation of musical classics in the conditions of rapid renewal of methods of communication with the audience. The innovative element of the investigation is associated with the inclusion of the media space (which is implemented mainly through the system of Internet tools) in the factual base of scientific research, which is a sign of the exclusive role of modern mass media in promoting the performing achievements of musicians. The study of Alexandre Tharaud’s releases from the perspective of media representations of his performance work is of exceptional interest, both from the perspective of revealing the performance phenomenon of the French pianist as a media figure, and from the point of view of solving the problem of actualizing academic art in the present, the way of broadcasting the experience of the past through the use of modern forms of presentation and a system of references between objects.
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