Caressing with a trembling hand, the characters of Mahler’s works exert the urgent longing gripping those near death. In restless staggers figures grasp for memories, confusing themes that strike a chord with turns of flittering illusion. Tiptoeing through this limbo with a limited imagination, the MET Orchestra extracted only glints of these travails under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin at {…}