Obra: Hermit Songs: The Monk and his Cat, Op.29 no.8

Wallis Giunta and Michael Sikich serve up a delectable programme of Bernstein, Sondheim, and friends

For most of us, the word ‘experimental’ probably provokes images of brass instruments filled with washing-up liquid or electrically manipulated sneezing sounds. But experimental doesn’t have to mean mental: it can simply refer to something original, something done differently.