In these last few years, there has been yet another shift in Sitsky’s approach to piano composition. These recent piano pieces—a set of preludes and three collections of “late piano pieces”—are strikingly different from their epically proportioned predecessors. If the phase of piano composition bookended by The Way of the Seeker and Apocryphon of Initiation could be characterised as one of expansion and monumentalism, then the current phase is just the opposite: marked by distillation and crystallisation.