I usually try to articulate my opinions more clearly than I will do so now, but I have a soft spot for Celibidache conducting Bruckner 7th with the Berliner Philharmoniker from 1992 (a one-off concert after 40 years, that then German president von Weizsäcker arranged).
There was a series of Youtube videos (that are now sadly gone) where he "tortures" the Berlin players (who are just shaking heads) right from the beginning of the rehearsal with how they play the opening tremolo: Celi asks everyone to play the tremolos differently and not to start together.
I'm not someone who thinks of Celi as first choice in any music because his own takes are very different than what the score says (example: the accents in the strings in the climb to the final climax in Bruckner's 4th (you can hear (badly though) what I mean at 7:45 in
this video), but somehow, I found this performance electrifying (perhaps because I know the background between the orchestra and conductor?).
Just took a search and found that it's on youtube
here.
