Don't all recordings aim to reproduce the concert hall experience?
No they don't! There are two basic approaches to sound recording. One is as mentioned above, the re-creation of the concert hall experience in the listeners home with as much realism as possible. This is what used to be meant by the term 'high fidelity'. The other approach takes the view that a recording is something quite different to the concert hall experience, another medium in fact and should be manipulated accordingly, particularly to compensate for the lack of visual stimulus when listening to a recording. This is the method with which the vast majority of modern recordings are made.