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I'm waiting with keen curiosity to see what your critics make of this recording. I took a chance on it and found it thrilling, though some may find it extreme. Fast movements are very fast--the first movement of OP.106 comes in at just under 10 minutes but with no sense of desperate scrambling to get all the notes. Wee is also one of the few pianists who makes sense of the angular fugue in the last movement, a sort of companion to the Grosse Fuga in the gnarly counterpoint department. Tempo changes are like wise pronounced, as are abrupt changes in dynamics. This is sort of how I imagine Beethoven might have played these works. How Paul Wee manages to perform at this level while sustaining a full-time career as a barrister I cannot imagine. But apparently he can!