I have a confession to make: I hate Christmas music! Well, most Xmas music, more specifically radio around Xmas time.

The same songs play over and over again and I swear every time I hear Mariah Carey screaming ‘All I want for Christmas is you’ I feel like bashing my head against a brick wall.

Also every other artist decides to release a Xmas album full of non-descript, mediocre arrangements that make me  cringe.

The exception to me is Pentatonix. I am a big fan of the American A Cappella group and their new album ‘A Pentatonix Christmas’ did not let me down.

With their ingenious, Grammy winning arrangements and sometimes total reinvention of  songs, I am a happy girl!

One of my favourites is Hallelujah, written by the late Leonard Cohen and immortalised by Jeff Buckley. It is a thing of beauty!

And of course the intricacies of the arrangement of God…