[4][5] In November 2014 three videos with three compositions were released on the ESA official YouTube channel in celebration of the first ever attempted soft landing on a comet by the mission: "Arrival", "Philae's Journey", and "Rosetta's Waltz".

[8] Carl Walker from ESA commented: "When we put the mission footage images together with the music, we thought it captured how people would feel if they were to see the comet for real in close-up.

[10] Ulf Kubanke for laut.de rated it as 4/5, stating it has something for everyone, being effective in result, a "real spacy popcorn without a taste crash", with the highlight being title track "Rosetta".

[12] Johnny Sharp writing for Prog noted that "you get the feeling that the title track was always intended as the centrepiece of the album, with its plucked strings and folky dulcimer-style accompaniment emulates Morricone's mournful majesty, before triumphant brass lends an air of pomp and circumstance", but "here he's doing what he did then, and since: taking the listener on a truly fantastic journey".

[14] Barney Harsent of The Arts Desk in a 3/5 review concluded "if there is a problem with Rosetta as an album, it lies in the suggestive cinematic tropes it employs.