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Programme 1: Friday 16th January 2009

1) Splinter (taken from the E.P. 'Here's a Piece of Ivan's Head') - Fredrick and the Golden Dawn

2) Dance 1 from Dance Pieces (commissioned by Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation) - Philip Glass Ensemble - Philip Glass

3) They're Not Waving (taken from the E.P. 'Birdtalk') - Vyvienne Long

4) This Magic Stuff' (from the EP 'Creation') - Nina Hynes

5) Serenade for tenor, horn and strings - Pastoral - Peter Pears&the Strings of LSO English Chamber Orchestra - Benjamin Britten

6) Mayday (taken from the album '24 Star Hotel') - Mundy

7) Hide and Seek (taken from the album 'Speak for Yourself') - Imogen Heap

8) Reel a bouche acadien - Horses, Geese and One Old Man (taken from the album 'Celtic Mouth Music' by Elipsis Arts) - Ben Benoit/Larsen/Marchand

9) If all she has is you' (taken from the album 'Songs for a Fallen Angel') - John McGlynn

10) Waiting for the Lark' (taken from the album 'My Love Lies') - Fiona Kelleher

11) Thomas the Rhymer (taken from the album 'Heritage') - Steeleye Span

Programme 2: Friday 23rd January 2009

1) Remember When (taken from the album 'Here Not There') - Heathers

2) La jeune fils aux cheveux blancs (taken from the album 'Le Fil') - Camille

3) Lump Sum (taken from the album 'for Emma, forever ago') - Bon Ivers

4) Pie Jesu (taken from the album 'Cynara') - Anúna

5) The Roaring Water Reels (taken from the album 'Beyond Words') - Niall Vallely and Frank Torpey

6) Push and Pull (taken from the album 'The Castaway') - Oliver Darley

7) Sound and Vision (taken from the album 'Low'') - David Bowie

8) The Queen and the Soldier - (taken from the album 'The Best of Suzanne Vega Tried and True')- Suzanne Vega

9) God and the Girl (taken from the album 'The Glove Thief') - Carly Sings

10) Ring Them Bells (taken from the album 'Oh Mercy') - Bob Dylan

11) The Spring Divinations- Dances of the Young Girls' taken from part 1 of 'The Rite of Spring' - London Symphony Orchestra & Leonard Bernstein - Igor Stravinsky.

Programme 3: Friday 6th February 2009

1) Down, Under the Sea (from the E.P. 'Hollow Kid') - Villagers/Conor O'Brien

2) Over and Over (from the album 'Big Calm') - Morcheeba

3) Sanctus (from Requiem Opus 9) - Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse & Michel Plasson - Maurice Durufle

4) in the yard, behind the church (from the album 'blinking lights and other revelations') - Eels

5) Absolutely Cuckoo (from the album '69 Love Songs') - The Magnetic Fields

6) Her Eyes are Underneath the Ground (taken from the album 'The Crying Light') - Antony and the Johnsons

7) So sorry (taken from the album 'The Reminder') - Feist

8) Reel du forgeron (The Blacksmith's Reel) - (taken from the album 'Rock and Reel') - La Bottine Souriante

9) Come On! Feel the Illinoise! (taken from the album 'Illinois') - Sufjan Stevens

10) Little Bear (taken from the album 'Through the Windowpane') - Guillemots

11) Happy To Be - The Dreggss/Una O'Boyle/Sean O'Neill/Aidan Coleman

12) Swinging Tripes and Trillibubkins - Noriko Kawai (piano) - Gerald Barry

Programme 4: Friday 13th February 2009

1) White Winter Hymnal (from the album 'Fleet Foxes') - Fleet Foxes

2) Slide (from the album 'Trampoline') - Miriam Ingram

3) Isobel (from the album ''Post') - Bjork

4) Beim Schlafengehen (Hermann Hesse) (from 'Four Last Songs' performed by Gundula Janowitz/Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert Von Karajan) - Richard Strauss

5) River Man (from the album 'Five Leaves Left') - Nick Drake

6) Break Your Heart - (taken from the album 'Ophelia') - Natalie Merchant

7) Seacht (taken from the album 'The Seven Steps to Mercy') - Iarla O Lionaird

8) ...just a song you can dance to... (taken from the album 'Celtic Mouth Music') - Mrs. Arthur MacArthur

9) Diddlage - (taken from the album 'Celtic Mouth Music') - Audrey Saint-Coeur

10) Old Questions (taken from the album 'Ariadne Thread') - Hope for AGolden Summer

11) Nothing (taken from the album 'Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars') - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians

12) Allegro con brio - (from Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92) performed by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert Von Karajan - Ludwig Van Beethoven

Programme 4: Friday 20th February 2009

1) Fast As You Can (from the album 'When The Pawn') - Fiona Apple

2) The Cricket Dance (from the album 'Midnight on the Water') - Mark O'Connor

3) Variation 5 a 1 ovvero 2 clav (from Goldberg Variations) performed by Murray Perahia - Johann Sebastian Bach

4) The people are the heroes now (from 'Nixon in China' performed by Orchestra and Chorus of St. Lukes conducted by Edo de Waart) - John Adams

5) Landing of the Spirit of '76 (from 'Nixon in China' performed by Orchestra and Chorus of St. Lukes conducted by Edo de Waart) - John Adams

6) Candy's Room (taken from the album 'Darkness on the Edge of Town') - Bruce Springsteen

7) Back Down the River (taken from the album 'Bless the Weather') - John Martyn

8) Dance of Years (taken from the album 'Tir na nOg') - Tir na nOg

9) Against the Clock (featuring Naomi Star taken from the album 'Wardenclyffe Tower' ) - Allan Holdsworth

10) Louange a l'Immortalite de Jesus (taken from 'Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps') performed by Tashi - Olivier Messiaen

11) O Vos Omnes (performed by The Sixteen and conducted by Harry Christophers) - Tomas Luis De Victoria

12) Are You Leaving for the Country - (taken from the album 'In My Own Time') - Karen Dalton

13) Goya - (taken from the album 'Live at the Baked Potatoe') - Greg Mathieson, Abraham Laboriel, Michael Landau, Vinnie Colaiuta