"Nancy Lee Harper performs a great service to her adopted country and to the talented young contemporary composers thereof through including them in her recorded repertoire and, more especially, through performing them so well and with such sensitivity to their individual voices....
"Nancy Lee Harper's imaginative pedalling created the perfect sonic field without blurring the treble (which is remarkably pedal-tolerant) for the playful badinage between left and right hands, often at extremes of register, before developing a more serious side.
"After all these experimental toyings, how Nancy must have relished getting her talented fingers into the big bravura octave passages and neo-Romantic Concerto-like textures of Óscar da Silva's Fantasia which threatened to steal the show though relying heavliy [and no doubt tongue-in-cheek] on all the stock-in-trade of the Romantic repertoire....
"If only more pianists in Britain would do what Nancy Lee Harper is doing so generously for the contemporary Portuguese scene in thus bringing before a wider public her authoritative recordings of works which deserve - and - thanks to the recording medium have every chance of achieving - repeated hearings until thier inmost core of meaning stands revealed!" (Review of Nancy Lee Harper, Música portuguesa para piano, vol. 2, Númerica NUM 1147, by Malcolm Troup in Piano Journal, nº 85 (2008).
“…This professor at the University of Aveiro, resident in Portugal since 1992, gives us in Nancy Lee Harper-Piano a vision of the 20th century in Portugal, from the folkloric influence until Expressionism and electronic music. Here are manifest the multiple facets of contemporary Portuguese expression.”
Jornal de Notícias (17 de Março de 2000), Review of CD Nancy Lee Harper, Música portuguesa para piano, Númerica NUM 1096 (1999).