Definition of "energico" [energico]

• In music, energetic: indicating a passage to be rendered with strong articulation and accentuation.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Now she appears alone in this live recording from Prague's major concert venue, the Rudolfinum, dazzling in the Brahms Sonata No 3, demanding attention in the opening allegro maestoso and taking the "allegro energico" marking of the scherzo more than literally."
• "The Faust part, though, provides a similar outlet to the themes of the Eternal Feminine that Mahler first explored in-depth in the 6th, with the "Alma" theme in the Allegro energico."
• "But the scherzo that led into the concussive concluding allegro energico was giving him nothing but trouble."