"…contemporary work, wispy, poignant in feeling and inspired.”
-Baltimore Evening Sun
"Beck capitalized handsomely on the rare opportunity offered in the Lambro work, to display his considerable virtuosity, but the composition also is musically fascinating. Lambro, a living American, has titled his Two Pictures, "Number One” and "Autumn Rhythm” after paintings by Jackson Pollock. "Number One,” in a sort of clockwork rhythm, is full of dialogues not only between percussionist and orchestra, but between various soloist’s instruments (snare drums and timpani, e.g.) and between sections of the orchestra, contrasting their characteristic resonances. "Autumn Rhythm” has a penetrating jungle beat and features a cadenza with which Beck dazzled his listeners.”
-Times Union, (Rochester, NY)
"This music is written in a way that projects compelling gravity and inwardness in the harmonic treatment, reaching real depths as it unfolds.”
-Diario de Mallorca, Spain
"Phillip Lambro demonstrated the diversity and quality of twentieth-century American composition…Lambro’s exploration of percussive sounds in the orchestral instruments, his fusion of Western and Asian musical idioms and his use of quartal and quintal harmonies, as well as metric modulation, was extensive.”
-Campus Times (University of Rochester)
Regarding Phillip Lambro's Toccata: "This is what Gottschalk's Banjo would have been, had it been written for the
head as well as the hands."
-Los Angeles Times
"…has the advantage of being enhanced by an unusually full and expressive score…”
-Saturday Review
"…a thumping success. The audience enjoyed it to the last decibel and gave the composer a round of applause.”
-Philadelphia Inquirer
"Phillip Lambro has brought out an interesting album. He is a gifted composer with a peculiarly contemporary approach to the classic. Lambro is still developing, but all of the preliminary works show what is there: keen technique, compositional talent and ability, the fineness of sound he draws from his orchestration and the sheer order of his musical conceptions. I don’t imply order in the Teutonic sense of will; instead he senses the truth of the French dictum that it is impossible to achieve true elegance without order.”
-National Board Of Review
"…lush, warm life…an engaging tone poem…”
-The News American
"…Lambro has won a place for himself as one of the most talented younger native composers.”
-Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra
"Lambro's mind operates on a plane of great subtlety, habitually given to poetic understatement,
with music as an integral part of an event rather than as a separate esthetic entity. He
exhibits a music consciousness, the kind of experience Charles Ives sought throughout his life
and called "the harmony of the spheres."
-National Board of Review
"I consider Phillip Lambro to be one of the most outstanding American composers of our time. As a concert pianist
I have played his piano works in various recitals throughout the world. I consider his Toccata for Piano
to be the finest example of this type of piece written to date by any American composer and his NIGHT PIECES, which he composed expressly for me, are very communicative."
--Roman Rudnytsky, concert pianist
"I have performed Phillip Lambro's piano works on many occasions throughout the world and received many compliments
from audiences and critics alike. Lambro's music is extremely inspired and idiomatically written for the piano. It
is also accessible to both the casual listener as well as more educated tastes. Phillip Lambro is truly an American original."
--Santiago Rodriguez, concert pianist