CORRETTE CD

Charles Brewer, American Record Guide On this new release, Cristiano Contadin plays the solo part and the first bass part in Corrette’s later Le Phenix for four generic basses on viola da gamba. Contadin has the technical ability to make even the hard passages sound easy,...

TELEMANN CD

Julie Anne Sadie Goode, THE VIOL review Summer 2015 n° 39,  The Viola da Gamba Society Contadin, playing with warmth and sublime control both treble and bass viols, offers us an unparalleled overview of Telemann’s approach and a sense of his high regard for the viol…Cristiano...

DOWLAND CD

Clic Musique, September 2019 John Dowland’s melancholy masterpiece in a new recording infused by both passion and scholarly research…the Italian violist Cristiano Contadin has boldly created a broken consort performance which mixes the recorder and also early violin and viola in with the uniquely grainy timbre...

Corrette CD

Among Michel Corrette’s best-known works is Le phénix, a brief concerto as catchy as a pop song, which has earned a spot in the slim repertoire of modern cello and bassoon quartets. Restored to period instrument form by Cristiano Contadin and the Opera Prima Ensemble,...

H. Purcell and AAVV Close thine Eyes – STRADIVARIUS 33931

… The gamba playing by Cristiano Contadin is one of the most precise demonstrations of technical and interpretive skill I have heard in a long time, and this among many other accomplished gambists.. January 2014  - Fanfare Magazine /  Bertil van Boer...