Excursions is a one-movement work exploring two principal “characters”: a rhapsodic, descending passage introduced by the cello, and a static, chorale-like phrase for the violin and cello. Two individual developments of these materials are separated by a slow, more lyrical middle section. The composer has written: This is analogous to situations in life: we stand by a crossroad, choosing one option and forfeiting the other. But in art, the realm of the imagination, we can perhaps afford to pursu...