同样的，David Hurwitz对朗朗的拉2和帕狂给予了猛烈的抨击，尤其是对他在自由速度及音量的掌握上。不过，他也对朗朗的拉3和在卡内基的演出给出了肯定。以下是部分摘抄：
The Paganini Rhapsody fares no better. There seems to be no guiding intelligence at work here at all, and I don't mean that Lang Lang is not intelligent or talented. I refuse to believe that his career is entirely a media creation, as some have claimed, and I was impressed by much of his Carnegie Hall debut concert. His Rachmaninov Third Concerto (on Telarc) was decent. He just doesn't reveal any of his more positive qualities on this outing. Let me explain with some concrete examples: The first four variations are all in the same tempo, Allegro vivace. So are variations eight and nine. They don't sound it, at least as compared to Variation 13. This brings back the opening theme almost literally, and it's marked simply Allegro, but here it's noticably livelier than the original Tempo 1, which is exactly what Rachmaninov does not want, because he plans to leave room to speed up even further for the Scherzando variation fifteen (whose Più vivo directive Lang Lang largely ignores).
