At the time, Wand???s Schubert was indeed revelatory as he harked back to an era when conductors such as Erich Kleiber, Fritz Busch, Guido Cantelli, and Arturo Toscanini were giving taut and often quite exciting performances of the Eighth and Ninth symphonies quite at odds with the more flaccid later readings of Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Karajan.