Sudbury Choral Society went on tour, well sort of, all the way to Holy Trinity Church in Long Melford – the BIG church in the village. Sudbury Arts Centre was not available and St Gregory’s in Sudbury is too small, beautiful though it is.

We sang Rutter’s Requiem and also his Gloria – so a total RutterFest. His Requiem is performed all over the world by many of the world’s best choirs and now its our turn in Long Melford. It is beautiful with rich hamonies and exquisite melodies. And Rutter’s Gloria is equally well performed worldwide, to quote a review…”it’s hard not to get caught up in the overall excitement – Rutter

ideally captures the festive, celebratory nature of these texts while offering plenty of his signature melodies, catchy rhythmic structures, and vibrant orchestration, involving powerfully expressive brass, percussion, and organ in the Gloria and Te Deum.”

John Rutter is one of our foremost modern composers, conductors and all round singing enthusiast. He is stlil active, well very active in fact, both nationally and internationally and really is a National Treasure who we should celebrate. We hope you managed to come to our concert, if not, here is a short clip of us rehearsing in Long Melford Church on the day of the concert.