Every year is a tough year for many, not everyone finds rest or refreshment in the often busy festive season. Many New Year suggestions are brutal and/or based in self-loathing. Try a Gentle January.

Gentle tones of voice to accompany gentle footsteps and gentle thoughts, all of which can be gently brought into our pauses and prayers. ‘Gentle January’ sounds quite inviting to me, better than a grey or dry January.

There is good twentieth century choral music, and there is Rutter.