Beethoven String Quartets, Volume 1 presents two of Beethoven's late period string quartets. At this period in his life Beethoven's works grew more spiritual, some would say even mystical. This quality permeates the late string quartets. Featured here is Opus 127: String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major (1825) and Opus 131: String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor (1826).

As soundtrack this music will work for grand, devotional or even metaphysical type subjects. The opera composer Richard Wagner is said to have remarked about the first movement of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131 that he thought it was the saddest piece of music he'd ever heard. As background underscore, this would work for serious, global documentary type of subjects.