Boston Globe--Concert at Boston Early Music Festival

... Recorder virtuoso Matthias Maute offered contrasting concerti by Telemann and Vivaldi, playing both of them with crackling vitality and whizzing velocity.
Richard Dyer June 20, 2005

Washington Post February 27th 2005

...In the four concertos he performed, (Matthias Maute) displayed a rare virtuosity. With a pure, round tone he swept through Vivaldi's rapid-fire runs, barely taking a breath. The deep expression in the Largo from the Concerto in G (RV 443) proved that Maute may be the finest of today's players...
Tom Huizenga February 27, 2005

Ionarts: on-line review of Concert at the Library of Congress, Wa
... Mr. Maute was the only performer who played from memory, and the program is mostly a showcase for his extraordinary talent. His remarkable, seemingly endless breath support is matched by dizzying fingerwork...

...(he) played the most familiar of the concerti first, the Concerto in G (RV 443), with a solo part for flautino, and it was here that the improvisatory fantasy of stupendous recorder virtuoso Matthias Maute was best displayed. A soaring cadenza led us into the slow movement, where extravagant ornamentation dressed up any material that was repeated. ...the recorder..., an instrument capable of extraordinary sounds...
Charles T. Downey, February 27, 2005

“[Mr. Maute was]...a paragon of
characterful elegance and
virtuoso flair”
LA Times