Recorded in late 2020 at the Philharmonie in Paris, home city of Quatuor �b�ne, this complete DVD cycle of the Beethoven String Quartets, directed by S�bastien Glas, complements the complete audio cycle recorded by the �b�ne in 2019 and early 2020; entitled Beethoven Around the World, the CDs drew on performances in Paris and six other great cities on five continents. The impact of the �b�ne's approach to Beethoven - both exhilarating and illuminating - was summed up by the respected magazine The Strad, which spoke of "white-hot interpretative intensity and fantasy" as the players "peel back layers of stultifying accretion and rediscover the shock value of this music for a contemporary audience... they play not as they should, but as they feel they must."