Steven Pritchard of The Guardian compared the work favorably to Lindberg's Campana In Aria, saying the "Concerto for Orchestra is altogether more commanding.
She added, "Lindberg, in his mid-forties, has come of age: this is a piece on another level with extraordinary confidence, boldness of gesture and an architectural logic that makes it at once familiar.
"[2] The music was similarly praised by Steven Pritchard of The Observer and Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle, who called the piece "a grandiose canvas".
[4][5] Andrew Clements of The Guardian compared the work to Lindberg's Sculpture, observing:The Concerto for Orchestra of 2003, and Sculpture, composed for the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles two years later, are striking examples of Lindberg's recent style, in which the control over harmony and structure is as rigorous as ever, but the gestural surface of the music is more immediately involving than in his earlier works.
Fine that the Concerto for Orchestra (2003) is a further step along this path, but quality is simply lacking – whether in the actual ideas or, especially, the interplay of textures such that the harmonies sound derivative of earlier works, while melodic lines are insufficiently defined.