Ian McGlynn writes for Culture on RTÉ about some of his favourite recent releases, as featured on Sound Out. 

September 2019

The New York Concert - Evgeny Kissin & Emerson Quartet || Donnacha Dennehy: Disposable Dissonance – Third Coast Percussion || In Absentia: Music by Majd & Tafreshipour - Darragh Morgan, Patrick Savage, Fiona Winning, Deirdre Cooper || Ex Oriente: Music by G.I. Gurdjieff - Gunter Herbig || Ichmouratov: Orchestral Works - Belarusian State Chamber Orchestra, Evgeny Bushkov 

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Summer 2019

Winter - Ficino Ensemble || Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No. 3 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' - Beth Gibbons, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki || Caroline Shaw: Orange – Attacca Quartet || Klang – Goeyvaerts String Trio 

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May 2019

Salonen & Saariaho: Works for Solo Cello - Wilhelmina Smith || The Last Hotel – Enda Walsh & Donnacha Dennehy || Bernard Rands: Chains Like the Sea - BBC Philharmonic, Clark Rundel || Arvo Pärt: The Symphonies - Nfm Wroclaw Philharmonic, Tõnu Kaljuste || Grace Williams: Chamber Music - London Chamber Ensemble, Madeleine Mitchell 

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April 2019

Une jeunesse a Paris - Marie Perbost || Bach: Cantatas Nos 106 & 182 – Amici Voices || Maghera Pony - Matthew Noone || In the Middle of Things: Chamber Music by Michael Zev Gordon – Fidelio Trio with Julian Bliss || Placeless – Kronos Quartet with Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat 

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March 2019

Shostakovich & Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas (Steven Isserlis and Olli Mustonen) || The Air, Turning (Edmund Finnis) || A New Sea (Yuki Numata Resnick and Kate Ellis) || becher from Reservoir (Isabelle O’Connell)

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February 2019

Fauré, Chausson & Satie: Piano Trios (Fidelio Trio) || Van Diemen's Land (Sam Lee/Peter Wiegold) || Stargazer (Ensemble Ériu) || A Simple Song (Anne Sofie von Otter/Bengt Forsberg)

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Best of 2018 

Venezia Millenaria (Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI) || SoftLOUD (Sean Shibe) || All Soundings Are True (Garth Knox and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh) || A Soprano’s Schubertiade (Carolyn Sampson) || After the Fall/Live at La Fenice (Keith Jarrett)