Open Rehearsal: James Gaffigan conducts Clyne, Mozart, and Mahler featuring Elena Villalón, soprano

My intention with Sound and Fury is to take the listener on a journey that is both invigorating—with ferocious string gestures that are flung around the orchestra with skittish outbursts—and serene and reflective—with haunting melodies that emerge and recede. -Anna Clyne

Mahler plays with his orchestra as though with a kaleidoscope (note that trombones and tuba are absent); the thread of discourse passes rapidly, wittily from instrument to instrument, section to section. He thinks polyphonically, but enjoys the combining of textures and colors as much as the combini...