You have to listen to this reading of the 8th. The players were playing their hearts out for Pablo Casals. The rhythmic drive, the harmonies, the inevitabilities and above all the musicality all add up to a truly pleasurable experience. The 7th in the same disc is only marginally less well played. 
Karl Bohm's cycle with VPO in the 1970's is very fine indeed. To me, the best in this cycle is the 4th. Lyrical and naturally flowing. 
Carlos Kleiber gave you a true "Kleiber-ish" reading here: brisk, urgent, cogent and smooth. It also shuns the somewhat pompous touches of his Beethoven 5th recorded for DG.