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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.