Symphony no1: The Liberty Symphony
A gigantic heroic exaltation of lyricism. Hail to Liberty
The Liberty Symphony is a magnificent masterpiece of classical music written specifically for large scale events dedicated to the human struggle for the establishment of freedom and democracy. The enlightening element of music of Karousos is the extreme lyricism.
The musical structure is monothematic and is classified in the work of post-romantic composers as Skriabin, Richard Strauss, Mahler, Ives and Aaron Copland. The composer incorporates impactive sound instrumentation interwoven with a method of intensely attuned diatonic scales and polytonal counterpoints.
The Liberty Symphony is an avant-garde neo-romantic polyphonic undertaking causing sentiments in the listener as a new realization of art. The composer Panagiotis Karousos using a wide orchestration range extensively uses the cupreous percussion instruments producing sound greatness in a multi-composed Pythagorean mathematic logic with the simplicity of a mastermind.
The gift of its creator to the modern aesthetics of synthetic approach is the presence of a high level of nostalgic emotionalism interwoven with a distinctly extensive polystylistic expressionism. The Spirit of Liberty gives us the sense of an enormous cube that travels slowly into the universe with the planets and galaxies.
The trumpets sound as the beacons of revelation accompanied by a Beethovenian dynamic fight for the human ideals and freedom. The heroic style of music of Panagiotis Karousos is indisputably cemented through the colossal choral finale of the play and the pattern of trombone. Presented here is all the drama of human existence with an incomparable realism.