Actually I was working on a period-ish realization of the 3rd mvt posted previously. Using 1/2 Dimension strings (i.e. 4.4.3.3.2), Historic horns/flute/oboes, modern clarinets+timp.
I do think that the big fat late-romantic strings sound absurd with classical period scores, and much prefer period-appropriate instrumentation, but I’ve heard plenty of good performances of said material by modern orchestras. And by the way, period-appropriate performances can be duff.
I was thinking just the other day that there are a lot of parallels between the sound worlds of 18th-century Baroque instruments and early 80s synthy-pop.
And how something like Nightbirds by Shakatak, with its descending suspensions over a circle of fifths, might be performed by period instruments! 
I don’t see anything ‘wrong’ in a modern orchestra playing Classical works, any more than Postmodern Jukebox, or Paul Anka doing Smells Like Teen Spirit.
But frankly, where we are now with orchestral rendering is incredible. It’s like it’s getting closer to ‘the real thing’ at some inverse geometric rate, so we’re on about 90% now, and each development brings us a fraction of the way closer (… but never quite getting there).
Arguing about the relative merits of the different orchestras is like rearranging cheese on the board.
Playing these next to excerpts of real orchestra recordings might also be interesting.
*if someone already hasn’t done this. I think that would qualify for fair use, for educational purposes : )
The point here was to compare a number of libraries, available for use by Dorico users. Obviously, these libraries are not particularly meant for historically informed renderings of pre-19th century music, so a later work would no doubt be more apt than the 40th Symphony. However, I believe we all have some idea of how a performance of it by the “modern” orchestras sound, so the purpose has nonetheless been served, I think.
Anyway I think this is the historically most correct version
What is the most interesting thing (to me) is that I was able, only listening to it once, to hear that there were mistakes in the score. And that proof-reading thing is really the most important feature in a notation software!