¡Viva Beethoven en México, con Anne-Marie McDermott!

Anne-Marie McDermott returns to Nezahualcóyotl Hall, in Mexico City, this weekend to perform Beethoven's Piano Concertos 4 and 5, over three concerts, with the distinguished Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería. At the podium is conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto, an old collaborator.

Ahead of the concerts, McDermott talked with Antonio Becerril Romo, from El Economista. “Carlos Miguel Prieto and I have worked together for 20 years in various places and with various orchestras in the United States," she told him. "I worked with him in Xalapa (Veracruz) and also with the Sinfónica de Minería. We have a deep trust, and I feel we are like-minded in the way we approach Beethoven's music.”

For the American pianist, the personality of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano concertos is so diverse that it offers many possibilities for working with them. “There's a lot of joy in these five concertos, and you have these moments where you hear Beethoven in a very good mood. Then you have the opposite, as if you were in the depths of emotion, and I love those challenges and rely on them when working with Carlos Miguel Prieto and the musicians of Minería.”

McDermott is currently recording, for the first time, Beethoven's cycle of five piano concertos with Prieto and the Sinfónica de Minería.

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