"In a Time Lapse" has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from music critics. Classic fM review distinguished, "Italian composer strikes gold once more with a haunting combination of dreamlike piano tunes and busy orchestral soundscapes. ' The CD Critic put forth that In a Time Lapse is "gorgeously ambient." The Independent was mesmerized by the "trancelike wave motion of tracks like 'Corale' and 'Run'"; while also commenting on Einaudi's talent saying that "there's a deeply satisfying emotional logic to his piano-based progressions that makes him as much the inheritor of Chopin and Satie as minimalists such as Glass and Reich
