best recordings for a sense of scale

I'd second The Trinity Sessions (both versions). I know you dissed the classical and opera, but if you have an exception for early music, there are a few recordings on Jordi Savall's label, Alia Vox, that were done in a Spanish castle, my favorite is with his wife, the soprano, Montserrat Figueras - "El Cant De La Sibil-La" has a majestic sense of scale and atmosphere. The tiresome audiophile darling, Jazz at the Pawnshop, has a great sense of atmosphere and you-are-there presence.

The question is a bit confusing in that the OP starts by asking about a sense of space, which is quite clear, and mainly what myself and others are responding to. But in a follow-up question speaks specifically of sense of "scale", which may lead one to think of the size of instruments and their placement in space (apart from the environment they're in). I can think of recordings that make a piano sound small and distant, and others that make it sound life-sized and in the room, for instance...neither happen to convey much about the atmosphere they are in in those particular cases, but the latter short piece DOES convey a wonderful sense of scale of a piano. I'm assuming this is not what the OP is after(?).