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Duration: 25 minutes In the second half of 2023, at the Payvar Foundation, we hosted 12 sessions of the “Radio Radif Thursdays” series. In these programs, by extensively listening to historical pieces and old recordings, in a serious yet friendly atmosphere with discussions and exchanges of views, we revisited the history of Iranian music from the late Qajar era to the first Pahlavi period.

Duration: 21 Minutes In the second half of 2023, at the Payvar Foundation, we hosted 12 sessions of the “Radio Radif Thursdays” series. In these programs, by extensively listening to historical pieces and old recordings, in a serious yet friendly atmosphere with discussions and exchanges of views, we revisited the history of Iranian music from the late Qajar era to the first Pahlavi period.

Duration: 29 minutes In the second half of 2023, at the Payvar Foundation, we hosted 12 sessions of the “Radio Radif Thursdays” series. In these programs, by extensively listening to historical pieces and old recordings, in a serious yet friendly atmosphere with discussions and exchanges of views, we revisited the history of Iranian music from the late Qajar era to the first Pahlavi period.

Duration: 56 minutes, With the end of World War II in Iran in 1945 (1324 Solar Hijri), the recording of gramophone discs from Iranian music resumed, first abroad and later domestically. The rise of radio and Persian-speaking films, which had begun a few years earlier, alongside the recording of discs, contributed to the flourishing of music production. This, in turn, led to the recording and preservation of sounds, which today are considered valuable audio documents of Iranian music history. A brief overview of the historical progression of these diverse documents, which continued to increase until the mid-1970s, is the topic of the final episode of this season of Radio Radif podcasts.

Duration: 42 minutes. After the last recordings in Tehran during Reza Shah’s era in 1933 (1312 Solar Hijri), no further music was recorded in Iran due to the absence of any recording companies. However, musicians embarked on four trips abroad to record their works on gramophone discs. These trips took place in the cities of Aleppo, Berlin, Baghdad, and again Aleppo. The story of these four journeys is the focus of the twelfth episode of Season 2 of the Radio Radif podcast. Following these recordings, no official Iranian music was recorded for several years until after the end of World War II.