SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH EMINENT VIOLINIST AND CONDUCTOR DMITRY SITKOVETSKY, WHOSE TRANSCRIPTION OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH'S "GOLDBERG VARIATIONS - ARIA WITH 30 VARIATIONS," INITIALLY COMPOSED FOR THE HARPSICHORD, INTO A WORK FOR A STRING ORCHESTRA CAN BE HEARD ON THE NEW CD "GOLDBERG VARIATIONS," PERFORMED BY THE NEW EUROPEAN STRINGS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AVAILABLE ON NONESUCH RECORDS.
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