@Richardbrand
+1
I find the best recordings are done this way. They get the venue / ambience correct. Like you are in attendance.
I was reading an album cover recently... the notes went on and on about was a great recording this was, the great hall it was recorded in and how it captures the ambience and hall so well. I started listening... it was terrible... there was no ambiance. I went back to the notes and read on... there were diagrams how they erected partitions between individual and small groups and placed microphones. I don’t know what these idiots were smoking... this was exactly the opposite of what they were advertising.
On the other hand one of my favorite albums is by Joe Jackson (not classical) Body and Soul. He went out looking for a venue that would be part of the recordings... found an all wood stage. I can’t remember the rest of the details...I think minimally miked. But from the first notes you hear the venue as an integral part of the performance it sounds like you are in the audience... with exceptional sonics.