Based on the novel by Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept was a dream project for composer Sharon Farber, who had read the book as a teenager and immediately fell in love with it.

Starring Armand Assante as famous philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the film features a score that is filled of strong themes (often presented on piano or solo woodwinds) and rich orchestrations. Although restrained emotional writing forms the backbone of the score, it also features several elegant scherzos as well as darker action-orientated material.

The album ends beautifully with Sharon Farber’s arrangement of Nietzsche’s song ‘Hymnus an das leben’ featuring soprano Ayana Haviv and the composer on piano.

1. Life or Death / Reading 1:33
2. Save Nietzsche / I’ll Help Your Friend 1:30
3. Breuer’s First Dream / Nietzsche’s Dying 0:46
4. Mathilda 2:48
5. Lou’s Seduction / Physical Exam 1:06
6. Show Her In / Club 1:37
7. Crazy Bertha 0:26
8. Who Cares? / Only Man 1:16
9. Shabbath Dinner 0:44
10. Fine Woman / Our Plan Is Working 1:08
11. You Are Mine 0:51
12. Breuer’s Second Dream / Sad Madness 2:28
13. Lou Follows Bruer / Looking for Nietzsche 1:39
14. Confessions 2:34
15. Coffee House Quartet 1:04
16. Fire 0:57
17. Nietzsche’s Letters / Military March 1:32
18. Nietzsche’s Dream 0:48
19. When I’m With Her 2:28
20. Freedom / Goodbye / Leaving 3:25
21. Friends 3:05
22. Hymnus an das leben 3:27