The problem with Haitink (?)

Beethoven 4, recorded 1987
in Philips box 442 073-2
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Verdict: very good but no cigar
+ great orchestral playing
+ fine interpretation
+ lively, expressive, exciting; definitely not boring
+ excellent sound
+ all in all very good
And yet
- the exuberance, while not suppresssed, is slightly restrained, safely within the limits of good taste, as it were, where I think the music should sound as if almost going out of control
--
Roland van Gaalen
The Netherlands