Ms. O'Connor and Ms. Fielding were less than ideally balanced in "Meine Liebe ist grün," which has an especially robust piano part.
Francisca Valenzuela, who has topped the charts in her native Chile, performed solo, splashing robust piano chords behind wry pop love songs, suggesting Sara Bareilles or Billy Joel, as her voice rose to yips and shouts.
Steven Beck gave a robust account of the piano writing in the Korngold.
"American Doll Posse" returns to her music of the nineties: fired-up songs centered on the piano, her robust singing, a rhythm section, and loud guitar playing more indebted to the seventies than to the ohs.
It's best enjoyed as a delicious indulgence in sound, as the London Symphony Orchestra did here, with the pianist Cédric Tiberghien splendid at the piano; nimble yet robust, dreamy yet forthright.
In the picture, he's a robust teen-ager, seated at a piano.
Ms. Carroll's impeccable playing of everyone from Cole Porter to Thelonious Monk belongs to the school of jazz that brings a strong sense of classical decorum to the piano, grounded in a robust jazz impressionism.
Ms. Carroll's impeccable playing of everyone from Cole Porter to Antonio Carlos Jobim to Thelonious Monk belongs to the school of jazz that brings a strong sense of classical decorum to the piano, grounded in a robust jazz impressionism.
Bernstein's robust and spirited charm at the piano well matches the approach of the orchestra, which surely needed little tutelage or arm waving, let alone levitation, from him to play Mozart.
Ms. McBroom, who is appearing through July 6 at Joe's Pub (with Joel Silberman at the piano) presents herself as a robust, cheerful everywoman who sees through the romance-novel fantasies that sustain her characters through dull marriages and dimming hopes.
The piano soloist, Gerhard Oppitz, had a full, robust sound with a down-to-earth quality that helped counteract the more neurotic aspects of the music, although it didn't always fully animate it, either.
