I think it was Tarrega who once said that "the guitar in the hands of an Englishman is a blasphemy." Such was the dominance of the Spaniards in guitar music--Albeniz, de Falla, Tarrega, Rodrigo--just to name a few, that no other nationality, well except for their cultural cousins in Latin America to a lesser degree, could lay claim to the genre.
But the prime exponent of guitar music nowadays is an Englishman: John Williams.
And rarer still, is a 14-year Chinese girl plucking away at a classical guitar. Here's Xuefei Yang with Joaquin Malats's Serenata Española, guitar transcription by Tarrega.
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