Conductor John Andrews on recording The Seal Woman | Gramophone Classical Music Podcast

Friday, June 20, 2025

'There’s so much music history shaped by people we’ve forgotten – I’m just asking audiences to listen as their contemporaries once did'

Conductor John Andrews joins Hattie Butterworth to speak about the debut recording of Sir Granville Bantock and Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s folk opera, The Seal Woman. They explore the folk song collecting of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, as well as Andrews’s commitment to uncovering lesser-known repertoire

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All music excerpts in this podcast are from 'The Seal Woman' which is out now on Retrospect Opera. You buy the whole album below:

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