Mr. Lubin opened the program with Haydn's Piano Sonata in E flat (H. XVI:52), in a darker, more forceful reading than fortepianists usually coax from their comparatively softspoken instruments.

The concert began with a solo piano work, "The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch" (2006), inspired by a brawl at a baseball game, and given a forceful, virtuosic reading by Blair McMillen.

Mr. Jansons gives the symphony a forceful but not very interesting reading.

Mostly, though, this was a beautiful, forceful reading that showed this orchestra's considerable strengths in an appealing light.

Zehetmair Quartet 92nd Street Y As a solo violinist, Thomas Zehetmair has been quirkily original, not least in his preference for forceful, hard-edge readings of works that more typically invited prettified lyricism.

Between them, the first of Berg's Three Pieces took a few moments to cohere, but once it did, this Präludium and its two successors benefited from a trenchant and sometimes forceful reading with a logical, shapely flow.

Carmen de Lavallade's simple, forceful live reading of a Walt Whitman poem set the tone of the dance, which was performed to Rachmaninoff.

It is paired with a forceful reading of Brahms's Third Sonata and two shiveringly beautiful Brahms Intermezzos.

Mr. Shirk got off to an awkward start with a forceful reading of the Sonata in C minor (K. 457).

This 1968 recording has Bernstein at the piano, vividly accompanying the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in especially forceful readings.