) is a Spanish architect and musician, specializing in medieval

Medieval music

Medieval music is Western music written during the Middle Ages. This era begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and ends sometime in the early fifteenth century...

 Spanish music.

Between 1966 and 1983, he was a member of the group Atrium Musicae de Madrid

Atrium Musicae de Madrid

Atrium Musicae was an early music ensemble from Madrid, Spain, founded in 1964 by Gregorio Paniagua, a Spanish monk.-Background:Perhaps the group's most famous recording is Musique de la Grèce Antique , in which they performed ancient Greek music carefully taken down off scattered fragments of...

, led by his older brother Gregorio, playing wind instruments and percussion. More recently he has been a founding member of the groups Cálamus and Hoquetus which specialize in the music of Arabic Andalusia

Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to a nation and territorial region also commonly referred to as Moorish Iberia. The name describes parts of the Iberian Peninsula and Septimania governed by Muslims , at various times in the period between 711 and 1492, although the territorial boundaries...

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In 1994, he created the group Música Antigua to perform and record the Cantigas de Santa Maria

Cantigas de Santa Maria

The Cantigas de Santa Maria are 420 poems with musical notation, written in Galician-Portuguese during the reign of Alfonso X El Sabio and often attributed to him....

. In the same year he also founded the group Ibn Báya Ensemble

Ibn Báya Ensemble

The Ibn Báya Ensemble is a Spanish-Moroccan early music ensemble formed in 1994.The ensemble takes its name from Avempace - Abū-Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sāyigh , also known as Ibn Baya , the Arab Andalusian polymath who was also a musician, and is dedicated to the music of medieval Arab Spain...

 together with the oud

Oud

The oud is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in North African and Middle Eastern music. The modern oud and the European lute both descend from a common ancestor via diverging paths...

 player Omar Metioui

Omar Metioui

Omar Metioui is a Moroccan classical musician.Metioui originally trained as a pharmacist, then concentrated on performance of the oud , or Arabic lute, as well as performance as a vocalist...

, for the performance and recording of Andalusian music. Other regular collaborators include Moroccan singers Said Belcadi

Said Belcadi

Said Belcadi is a Moroccan classical singer and musician. He has performed with Mohammed El-Arabi Serghini, with Eduardo Paniagua, and with Omar Metioui both as singer and player of the oud.-References:...

, Mohammed El-Arabi Serghini

Mohammed El-Arabi Serghini

Mohamed El-Arabi Serghini is a Moroccan classical singer and musician. He has performed with Aouatif Bouamar, with Eduardo Paniagua, Said Belcadi and Omar Metioui...

, and the Algerian oud player Salim Fergani

Salim Fergani

Cheikh Salim Fergani is an Algerian oud player and singer. He is a notable performer of maluf music, and has recorded various CDs for the Pneuma label of Eduardo Paniagua. He is the son of the Algerian musician Mohamed Tahar Fergani.-References:...

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Paniagua also founded and currently manages the record label Pneuma through which he has published a number of his own recordings. Some of the recordings are reissues of earlier Sony Hispánica recordings, or compilations from other Pneuma recordings.

Discography

With Atrium Musicæ de Madrid: (dir. Gregorio Paniagua):

• La Folía (Harmonia Mundi)
• La Spagna (Harmonia Mundi)
• Musique de la Grèce Antique (Harmonia Mundi)
• Antología de Música Antigua Española

With Música Antigua:

• PN 010 Cantigas de Toledo (was Sony Hispánica 62264)
• PN 020 Cantigas de Castilla y León (was Sony Hispánica 62265)
• PN 210 Cantigas de Castilla-La Mancha
• PN 220 Cantigas – Santa Maria del Puerto vol. I
• PN 240 Cantigas – Remedios Curativos (was Sony "Hispánica" 62263)
• PN 280 Cantigas de Madrid : Virgen de Atocha
• PN 340 Cantigas de Animales – Bestiario
• PN 400 Cantigas de Flauta y Tamboril
• PN 420 Cantigas de Extremadura
• PN 490 Cantigas – Caballeros (was Sony "Hispánica" 63018)
• PN 510 Cantigas de Italia (was Sony "Hispánica" 60843)
• PN 520 Cantigas de Francia (was Sony "Hispánica" 60842)
• PN 570 Cantigas de Jerez (was Sony "Hispánica" 60080)
• PN 590 Cantigas de Sevilla (2 CDs) (was Sony "Hispánica" 62859)
• PN 610 Cantigas – La Vida de Maria (2CD)
• PN 680 Cantigas – El Camino de Santiago en las Cantigas de Alfonso X el Sabio
  • PN 700 Rosa de las rosas (compilation)
  • PN 720 Llena de gracia (compilation)
  • PN 730 Santa María, estrela del día (compilation)
• PN 740 Cantigas de Viola de Rueda
  • Obras Maestras de las Cantigas (compilation)
• PN 820 Cantigas celtas - Merlin
• PN 860 Cantigas de Valencia
• PN 880 Cantigas de Bizancio (2CD)
• PN 980 Cantigas de Catalunya, 2008
• PN 990 Cantigas de Inglaterra, 2008
• PN1080 Cantigas de Burgos, 2009
• PN1090 Cantigas de Alemania, 2009
• PN1150 Cantigas de Flandes, 2010
• PN1170 Cantigas del Mar Cantábrico 2010
• PN1230 Cantigas de Mujeres 2011
• PN1280 Cantigas de Nuestro Señor 2011

With Ensemble Ibn Baya:

• Jardín de Al-Andalus
• Walladah (Córdoba 994-1077) and Ibn Zaygun (Córdoba 1003-1071)
• La Llamada de Al-Andalus
• Núba Al-Maya
• Ibn Arabi
• El Agua de la Alhambra
• La Felicidad Cumplida
• Nuba Al-Istihlal'
• Poemas de la Alhambra
• Alarifes Mudéjares

With Ensemble Cálamus:

• The Splendour of Al-Andalus
• Medieval Women's songs

Various ensembles:

• Danzas medievales españolas
• Tres culturas: judios, moros y cristianos en la España medieval
• Luz de la Mediterranía
• Sepharad
• Música Européa del siglo XV para el Organo de papel de Leonardo da Vinci
• Ecos del Espíritu. Melodías Gregorianas
• El Cantar de la Conquista de Almería

Books

• PN770 Rumi-Ibn Arabí (libro-disco Almuzara)
• PN960 Rabindranath Tagore (libro-disco Almuzara)
• PN1030 Ibn Gabirol. Caballero de la Palabra (libro-disco Almuzara)

External links

Biography & partial discography

• Cantigas - complete discography