‘The plum piece was Calmo … Fireworks were put aside; Matthews accepted the viola’s shy disposition, and drew out long singing lines, flecked with mild syncopation.’
The Times (Geoff Brown), 13 January 2000
 
‘… Matthews made the most of the viola’s haunted, shadowy tones in a gentle, elegiac mediation.’
The Daily Telegraph (Laurence Hughes), 10 January 2001