LSO/Daniel Harding – review

Barbican, LondonStrauss always said Nietzsche was the most important intellectual influence on his life and work, a statement many people have doubted over the years. The ambiguous ending of Also Sprach Zarathustra, based on Nietzsche's magnum opus, famously replaces the philosopher's vaunting certainty with something altogether more querulous, leaving admirers of both men to ponder this disparity's significance.Daniel Harding brought philosophy and music back into juxtaposition, however, in his...

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