When constructing a home concert, I like to put together recordings that harmonize stylistically, but I'm not pedantic about demanding that they all have the same 2nd trombone. Indeed I think most good conductors leave their distinctive stylistic imprint on all their recordings regardless of orchestra. One can construct fully satisfying Furtwängler Brahms or Beethoven programmes zigzagging back & forth between Berlin, Vienna, etc. I don't think a change of orchestra in a Bernstein or Tennstedt programme would be likely to trouble me.
Your conspectus also left me keen to preface the Seventh with the Meistersinger Overture some evening. Not so hard to find matching recordings there!
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