The well-known Seventh Sonata, with its arm-blurring perpetual-motion finale, was played with steely power and incisive rhythm by Larry Weng.
Lallana is at the peak of his powers, inventive and incisive, and now boasts goals in successive England matches.
His lyrics grew more empathic, and his music acquired an incisive, crackling power, largely owing to his supertight backing band.
The roles demand everything: Italianate sound and outbursts of power, elegant lyricism and incisive attack, coloratura agility and soaring line.
Mayor writes a tough story for his tortured protagonist, and the unfamiliar setting brings out a new, edge-of-the-knife side of his incisive descriptive powers.
But there were compensations in her Brünnhilde, including gleaming colors, incisive energy and power that sliced through the orchestra.
The brilliant young Chinese pianist Yundi Li excels in Prokofiev's volatile, technically daunting Piano Concerto No. 2. He plays with expansive lyricism, surging power and, when called for, incisive attack.
The first half continued in the standard tempo of a 'Clasico' as Spanish Cup holders Barcelona dominated the ball with their relentless 'Tiki-taka' passing, and La Liga champions Real threatened with their incisive speed and power on the break.
But the dynamic nature of those ideas -- the energy that percolates through those incisive questions about power -- give almost all the characters great scope for change.
But his muscular singing crackled with intensity, incisive diction and gravelly power.
