Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas

Why would Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), modernist titan and so-called prophet of the New Music, commit himself time and again to the venerable sonata-allegro form of Mozart and Beethoven? How could so gifted a symphonic storyteller be drawn to a framework that many have dismissed as antiquated and dramatically inert? Mahler''s Symphonic Sonatas offers a striking new take on this old dilemma. Indeed, ...