Tours have so far taken the members of the Philharmonie all over Europe, up to China, Japan, Israel, South America and the USA. Each year the Dresden Philharmonie also öfters proof of its artistic abilities in numerous guest performances and concert tours. In 2004 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and the Orchestra performed on tour in Spain where the newspaper “El Diario Montanes” praised the Orchestra as “one of the best German orchestras of all time.” Performances during a three-week tour of the United States also met with the highest praise: I , feared New York critics heralded the Dresden Philharmonie as one of the world’s finest. The J ' orchestra's tour of South America lasting several weeks in 2005 was also a rousing success, as were the tours throughout Switzerland (2006), the USA (2008) and Japan/Korea (2008), proving once again the excellent partnership shared by the Dresden Philharmonie and its Principal Conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. * -X : / * . / i v • 's
