“Time and again, European orchestral conductors roar into America’s side doors, virtually unknown but fully matured and ready to assume major appointments.” Their anonymity — which is not necessarily a bad thing — is due in part to changes in the recording industry, David Patrick Stearns says. “Recordings continue to be made, but coherent electronic calling cards have been replaced by scattershot appearances in a variety of labels, big, small, and so local as to be almost invisible.”