Recordings

Birthday Variations (Single)

TMG-024. Connie wrote Birthday Variations in 1958 as a birthday gift for her brother Philip. She delivered the manuscript but never recorded it in full, herself...the gift for Phil was not to listen, but to learn the challenging piece! The piano on this version is performed by our friend Jacqueline Santillan of Wait. Think. Fast.

Available now via bandcamp and on all other digital platforms starting 9/3/24

Sad Lady (EP)

HC-008. Sad Lady and Sorrow Is My Name—both previously broadcast but never released—are joined by Connie's gorgeous (albeit impromptu) arrangement of the traditional ballad The Ash Grove. The EP closes with two of her doubletracked arrangements (Down This Road and We Lived Alone, both previously released in different form on 2009’s How Sad, How Lovely) that shed new light on her songcraft and melodic sensibility.

Available for streaming/download on all digital platforms, and for hi-res download via bandcamp.

Connie’s Piano Songs

MFARM11. Connie's Piano Songs is an album of Connie Converse's never-before-heard art songs for piano and voice, left behind in manuscript format at the time of her disappearance. The album features original songs, settings of poems by e.e.cummings, Dylan Thomas, A.E. Housman and T.S. Eliot, and Connie Converse's last known musical compositions -- an ambitious suite of songs called "The Cassandra Cycle."

Connie's Piano Songs features the recording debuts of soprano Charlotte Mundy and pianist Christopher Goddard. It was produced by Howard Fishman, recorded in Brooklyn, NY, and released on February 14, 2014 via Fishman’s Monkey Farm Records.

Available for streaming/download on all digital platforms, and on CD/hi-res download via bandcamp.

Musicks

TMG-023. Digital album release to commemorate Connie's 99th birthday. Musicks is the fabled omnibus of one-off tape reels that Connie made for her brother and sister-in-law as a private “Song of the Month” club. Some of these tracks were included on 2009’s How Sad, How Lovely, but most have been unheard until now. This is the first time the collection has been presented in its entirety.

All tracks have been newly restored by Dan Dzula (producer, How Sad, How Lovely).

Available for streaming/download on all digital platforms, and for hi-res download via bandcamp.

How Sad, How Lovely

ST-002. The “original” Connie Converse album (compilation) from 2009.

Available for streaming/download on all digital platforms, for hi-res download via bandcamp. LP/CD/cassette available from Third Man Records.

History

2009: Ld-09001 [Lau derette] Short-run CD

2015: ST-002 [Squirrel Thing] CD re-issue & Vinyl LP (w/ BONUS track I Have Considered the Lilies)

2019: HC-003 [Heroic Cities] Digital reissue (hi-res FLAC, etc.)

2026: TMR-1079 [Third Man Records] Vinyl LP, CD, and cassette tape reissue. LP comes with bonus 7-inch single (House b/w Playboy of the Western World Remix)