A venerated composer in the piano quartet genre, George Tsontakis has a finely crafted style that deserves recognition. TSONTAKIS PIANO QUARTET #4 presents his fourth piano quartet — a feat rarely accomplished by contemporary composers — performed by the Ames Piano Quartet. Tsontakis’s large-scale harmonic prolongations are in full force throughout the work, with the repeated pattern of each movement evolving and expanding on itself in a continuum of motion and rhythm.