"[2] In a review for AllMusic, Michael G. Nastos wrote: "The liquid piano sound of Crispell and the pithy, earthy, throat tones of Rothenberg's bass clarinet in the main shapeshift back and forth during this mercurial program of deep blue, darkest night, after-hours modern jazz.

It's not so much programmed as it states anchors of melody and centerpieces of coalesced thought process, rambles into free discourse, then returns to an identity... As intriguing as it is deep, spiritual, and compelling, these two have chemistry bubbling under the surface, with the kind of geothermic energy available to slightly warm up any living space, vacant or not.

One Dark Night I Left My Silent House is one of the calmest, loveliest duo albums to come out on ECM in all of the 41 year existence of Manfred Eicher's storied jazz label.

Much of the music on this delicate, nuance-savouring set finds her laying carpets of enquiring chords, strummed-strings sounds and metallic effects beneath Rothenberg's mingling of the clarinet subtleties of Jimmy Giuffre and the tonal adventurousness of Joe Maneri...

"[7] Writing for Elsewhere, Graham Reid commented: "this is an album that walks the woods at night, listens to the ancient branches creak and yawn, and spends time quietly observing the fresh gentle fall of snow in deep and dark forests."