In honor of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th anniversary in 2020, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería performed Beethoven’s symphonic cycle at the Academia de Música del Palacio de Minería in Mexico City in 2019. Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto leads the orchestra in this performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67. Prieto has been serving as music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería since 2008, and is considered the foremost Mexican conductor of his generation. Beethoven wrote his famous Symphony No. 5 between 1804 and 1808. The four-note figure that opens this symphony, the so-called “Fate Motif”, is one of the best-known motifs in Western music. This rhythmic pattern recurs in various guises in the other movements of the symphony, for instance in the beginning of the third movement, where it is played by the horns. Symphony No. 5 consists of four movements: Allegro con brio, Andante con moto, Scherzo, and Allegro - Presto.
