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That was a great night. Immediately after Janis, I played Ravel’s two Mélodies hébraïques, sung by the great mezzo Cecilia Bartoli on her wonderful 30-year-old recital Chant D’Amour: Mélodies Françaises, with pianist Myung-Whun Chung (16/44.1 FLAC, Decca/Qobuz). I’d played this album many times in CD format in my prestreaming days, but I’d never heard any system maintain such a firm, effortless hold on the mezzo-soprano’s voice when she opens and darkens her tone to emphasize the intense prayerful longing at the heart of “Kaddish,” the Jewish prayer for the dead. The opportunity this system offered to appreciate the charge conveyed by the undertones in Bartoli’s voice was remarkable.Let me not forget the startling experience of listening to the vehemence in Unsuk Chin’s šu for Sheng and Orchestra, recorded live by Wu Wei and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted almost 20 years later by the same Myung-Whun Chung (footnote 5) (24/44.1 FLAC MQA, Deutsche Grammophon/Tidal). Want to revel in power as well as beauty? Try some heavy-duty orchestral fare through the M10s.