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Un nuovo flauto diritto contralto di Castel a Perugia
| Author | Giacomo Silvestri |
| Series | Recercare - Rivista per lo studio e la pratica della musica antica - Journal for the study and practice of early music |
| Nr. | XXXI/1-2 2019 |
| Size | 17×24, pp. 230 |
| Year | 2020 |
| ISBN | 9788855430319 |
The woodwind instrument maker Castel, active in the first half of the eighteenth century, is essentially known thanks to its surviving production, which includes eighteen instruments (recorders, transverse flutes, oboes), complete or hybrid, bearing its mark. The article illustrates a new Castel’s alto recorder, which was recently discovered by the author, and now displayed at the Museo Diffuso degli Strumenti Musicali in Perugia.
Giacomo Silvestri earned his first- (2017) and second-level academic diploma (2019) in oboe from the the Conservatory of Perugia. He specialized in the Baroque oboe and in medieval and Renaissance reed instruments. He has given lectures-concerts in universities and conservatories in some European countries and in the USA. He completed a census-catalogue of all surviving oboes of the eighteenth-century wind instrument maker Carlo Palanca. He collaborated with Danilo Tamburo in the reconstruction of some historical instruments, such as a Palanca oboe and a Baroque sordellina, based on a project by Goffredo Degli Esposti.giacomos_1995@libero.it