The pre-Christmas releases bring many treasures, and I've dipped in and pulled out some gems. From our current Gramophone cover artist, Paavo Järvi we've Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini from the first album in a symphony cycle with Zurich's Tonhalle Orchestra, that will turn the attention on this exciting new conductor-orchestra partnership. The pianist Daniil Trifonov plays Stravinsky's Three Movements from 'Petrushka' from a wonderful new album on DG that gathers together a terrific programme of Russian music, and I've also chosen a performance of Dvořák's charming Bagatelles featuring five members of the same family, the Moreaus of which the cellist Edgar is the best known.

For fans of Baroque and earlier music, we've Vivaldi from Europa Galante, Handel from Dorothee Meilds as well as a keyboard suite played by Pierre Hantaï, and some enchanting music by Clancy Eccles from a magical new album from Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Thomas Dunford.

New music comes courtesy of Mark Simpson, who talks to Martin Cullingford in this week's Gramophone Podcast about his new work Geysir, a striking piece by Mariella Cassar-Cordina from an album of music by Maltese composers, and - prior to its full release on Friday (November 27) a movement from Philip Glass's recent Piano Sonata. And from Hans Werner Henze, a work for the unusual, though effective, combination of mandolin, guitar and harp played by three top-class musicians.

A Hugo Wolf string quartet, an organ transcription of Samuel Barber's perennial favourite, his Adagio for strings, and opera arias by Rossini, Tchaikovsky and Puccini complete the menu, all rounded off with a taster from Christian-Pierre La Marca's forthcoming recording 'Cello 360' (also due out on Friday). James Jolly

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Vivaldi Argippo – Sinfonia

Europa Galante / Fabio Biondi (Naive)

Handel Nine German Arias – No 3, ‘Süsser Blumen Ambraflocken’

Dorothee Mields; Die Freitagsakademie (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)

Handel Suite in F, HWV427

Pierre Hantaï (Mirare)

Handel Nine German Arias – No 6, ’Meine Seele hört im Sehen’

Dorothee Mields; Die Freitagsakademie (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)

Barber Adagio for strings (arr organ)

Hansjörg Albrecht (Oehms Classics)

Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini

Tonhalle Orchestra / Paavo Järvi (Alpha)

Dvořák Five Bagatelles

Raphaëlle Moreau; David Moreau; Edgar Moreau; Jérémie Moreau (Erato)

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin – ‘I love you’

Dmytro Popov; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Mikhail Simonyan (Orchid Classics)

Simpson Geysir

Mark Simpson, Fraser Langton; Nicholas Daniel, Emma Fielding; Amy Harman, Dom Tyler; Oliver Pashley, Ausias Garrigos Morant; Ben Goldscheider, Angela Barnes, James Pillai, Fabian van de Geest; David Stark (Orchid Classics)

Stravinsky Three Movements from ‘Petrushka’

Daniil Trifonov (DG)

Puccini La bohème – ‘Che gelida manina’

Dmytro Popov; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Mikhail Simonyan (Orchid Classics)

Cassar-Cordina Waiting – Waiting

Malta Philharmonic Orchestra / Sergei Smbatyan (Navona)

Wolf Italian Serenade

Quartetto di Cremona (Avie)

Rossini Otello – ‘Ah! vieni, nel tuo sangue vendicherò le offense’

Lawrence Brownlee; Michael Spyres; I Virtuosi Italiani / Corrado Rovaris (Erato)

C Eccles Sonata Quinta in E minor

Théotime Langlois de Swarte; Thomas Dunford (Harmonia Mundi)

Rossini Ricciardo e Zoraide – ‘Qual sarà mai la gioia’

Lawrence Brownlee; Xabier Anduaga; I Virtuosi Italiani / Corrado Rovaris (Erato)

Henze Carillon, Récitatif and Masque

Avi Avital; Sean Shibe; Anneleen Lenaerts (DG)

Glass Piano Sonata – Movement III

Maki Namekawa (Orange Mountain Music) PRE-RELEASE TRACK

Lennon & McCartney Yesterday

Christian-Pierre La Marca (Naive) PRE-RELEASE TRACK