{"id":14567,"date":"2020-04-02T10:07:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T17:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=14567"},"modified":"2020-04-03T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T21:07:52","slug":"video-picks-of-the-week-watch-colin-davin-guitar-and-emily-levin-harp-play-ravel-and-philip-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-picks-of-the-week-watch-colin-davin-guitar-and-emily-levin-harp-play-ravel-and-philip-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Picks of the Week: Watch Colin Davin (Guitar) and Emily Levin (Harp) Play Ravel and Philip Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"

I fell in love with the combination of classical guitar and harp when I wrote a CG<\/em> story five years ago about the wonderful album collaboration of Jason Vieaux and Yolanda Kondonassis<\/a> called Together <\/em><\/a>(on the Azica label). Ever since, I have privately pined away over the disappointing paucity of other guitar-harp duos. But then what should pop up in my email recently but two<\/em> exquisite video performances by the more recent pairing of Colin Davin and Emily Levin <\/a>(aka the Davin\u2013Levin Duo). The musical styles in these two selections are quite different from each other, but both are suited beautifully to this combination of instruments: Maurice Ravel<\/a>‘s magical Les Entretiens de la Belle et de la B\u00eate<\/em> (Conversations between Beauty and The Beast) from his 1910 piano-duet suite Ma M\u00e8re l’Oye<\/em> (Mother Goose); and Philip Glass<\/a>‘ propulsive and characteristically hypnotic Etude No. 6<\/em>, a solo piano work from his 1994\u201395 collection Etudes for Piano, Volume 1<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Davin is probably known to many of you. A prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Sharon Isbin at the Juilliard School, he has performed internationally and played in numerous musical configurations, and currently teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he co-heads the Guitar Department with Jason Vieaux. (Hmm…You don’t suppose that influenced Colin to form a guitar-harp duo, do you?) We have previously featured him in this space in a solo performance of a movement from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 6,<\/a> and playing Rodrigo’s Aranjuez, Ma Pens\u00e9e<\/a> in a duet with Isbin. (Here’s an excellent, informative interview with him from the good folks at Six String Journal<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Emily Levin<\/a> is the principal harpist for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and also has performed as a soloist and with major symphonies around the world.<\/p>\n

It’s quite an accomplished duo! Their new album, called Banter<\/em>, has just<\/em> been released and is available here<\/a> (and no doubt other places in the future). \u2014Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n