weird soundstage with pianos

There are VERY few recordings out there which present the piono correctly! Close miking is the most silly attempt. Some recordings try to reproduce the sound as if the pianist would hear it. Some put up two mikes in some distance of the open corpus of the grand. The very best try to carefully adjust both ways so that a "round" and compact sound picture is the result. Try anything by
Dabringhaus & Grimm and you'll hear what I mean.