When will there be decent classical music recordings?

tatyana69, with all due respect I think you are getting hung up in conceptual quandaries and "missing the (music) forest for the trees". You can’t have it both ways. You are correct, a "composer’s fertile mind" would, in fact, "leap at the opportunities today". However, you seem to be missing some key points:

First, the composers you seem to be referring to DID NOT live today. The tools that you are referring to were not available when they composed. So, the artistic integrity of their works is inextricably linked to what was available to them. Moreover, those very composers would be the first to point out that this reality needs to be respected and that for anyone besides the composer to try and alter how that artistic vision is presented after the fact is to not respect the music and belies a lack of understanding or appreciation of values that are an integral part of quality art; values which emphasize nuance and subtlety ("blob music"?!) and not just the hyper-stimulation that our modern electronically "advanced" culture and it’s music listeners have become accustomed to.

Many thanks to everyone for suggestions re recordings. Have ordered some to test!

@tatyana69    thank you for bringing it up! Based on the responses here the idea of bringing an extra dimension into classical music bothers a lot of a'goners!
I totally agree with the sentiment of Alex Ross from his book "The Rest is Noise" that segregating music into Music and Classical Music is WRONG... (a disclaimer, that is one of just two books I had read about music in my entire life! The other one was about Pink Floyd, the band Alex Ross referred to as "sounding like Mahler"). Most of us (myself included!) take this distinction a bit too serious... 
Once this segregation is disregarded as moot, I will be thrilled to hear DSOTM in surround with Gilmour guitar flying around me as much as "classical" recording from the perspective of being inside the orchestra. Totally agree with the guys that this has nothing to do with the original "intent" of the composer, but listening to Tchaikovsky under late Celibidache no one can pretend that they are listening to the "original intent" of the composer!... Beautiful, transcendent, but Definitely not the original intent!!! 

Wow, I feel just the opposite! I wish more popular music was recorded with the approach more typical of classical music recordings. The most irksome thing about most contemporary popular music recordings is the squashing of dynamic range, followed by having the musicians sounding as though they're playing in different rooms. I do have to admit that, perhaps due to the microphones being placed above the strings, and piano, rather than in front, I often hear these instruments as being overly bright. Also, I would on some level expect to hear chamber music differently than symphonic music. With chamber music I tend to prefer the musicians in my room perspective a bit more, and with symphonic music I tend to prefer the perspective of being transported to the concert hall.

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