Wand's music-making touched listeners with an impeccable balance of perfection, coupled with faithfulness to the original, emotional fulfillment, intellectual mastery, extreme sensitivity and spiritual penetration. He described his mission as a "service to music", to which this completely unpretentious man remained true for seventy years. He became one of the "greats" of the twentieth century, a figure who towers above our troubled times, and his name is synonymous with highest musical quality.