For a Land Without Music, as the Germans used to call us, we British don’t do badly when it comes to sending conductors overseas to run the orchestras of other countries. I suppose it resurrects, in cultural terms, our old colonial habits. And there’s always interest when the conductor brings his orchestra back to the Proms, to show it off. A ritual return, it’s like a young man bringing home his foreign bride to meet the family. And an example at the Albert Hall the other week came when Jonathan Nott brought over from Geneva his recently acquired Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.