July 20, 2011 – “ [The basilica choir joined] soprano Miriam Cauchi, ever on such excellently top form, and the orchestra in Mozart's Laudate Dominum, the concluding section of the Vesperae Solemnes de Confessore, K.339. The disarming charm and simplicity of the music, its spiritual depth and execution carried all before it.” Albert Storace, The Times of Malta
April 20, 2011 – “... Soprano Miriam Cauchi was on the best of form, hers being the first vocal contribution to the concert when she sang the Ave Maria from Verdi’s Otello. This was a heartfelt interpretation, the voice crystal clear and soaring easily and without effort underlined by the delicate playing of the strings. This created the rightly fervid and intensely devotional aspects of the prayer. In another Ave Maria, the much earlier one by Caccini (arr. Christopher Muscat), she maintained the same feeling although the context is a different one to the Verdi. Just beautiful, bless her! The singer was equally well-equipped technically and musically, for the Jenkins Gloria – I’ll make music which was proof of the ease the singer changes idiom and produces equally convincing results” Albert Storace, The Times of Malta
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