A Guided Tour of Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Opus 18 No. 1 (1801)

It's time to have a closer look at Beethoven's string quartets, beginning with this one. This vibrant youthful work is a wonderful specimen of Beethoven's 1st-period style, an approach still very much attuned to the 18th century but also forward-looking. The recording is by the Emerson Quartet.