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For a few years he enjoyed a meteoric celebrity, including participating in a recording of William Walton's Façade with Edith Sitwell .< ref > Lambert's best known composition is The Rio Grande ( 1927 ) for piano and alto soloists, chorus, and orchestra of brass, strings and percussion.

It achieved instant success, and Lambert made two recordings of the piece as conductor ( 1930 and 1949 ).

He had a great interest in American Negro music, and once said that he would have ideally liked The Rio Grande to feature a black choir .< ref >