The Concerto for Orchestra has been praised by music critics. Steven Pritchard of
The Guardian compared the work favorably to Lindberg's
Campana In Aria, saying the "Concerto for Orchestra is altogether more commanding."
Annette Morreau of
The Independent wrote, "In recent years, Lindberg has written a series of purely orchestral pieces and a series of concertos; this work is a triumphant combination of the two with real concertante demands on all sections of the orchestra and the occasional big solo for individual members." 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. Lindberg's harmonic language is now so rich and varied, consonance, if anything, more evident than dissonance." Andrew Clements of
The Guardian compared the work to Lindberg's
Sculpture, observing: Conversely, Richard Whitehouse of
Gramophone was more critical of the work, remarking: ==Recording==