More discographic information about most of these can be found at the Bach Cantatas Website.
Rec Date | Performers | Instruments | Format | Notes |
1953 | Leonhardt | harpsichord | LP | Neupert |
1954 | Dichler & Dichler | 2 pianos | LP, CD | |
1955 | Marlowe | harpsichord | LP | augmentation canon only; date approximate |
1959 | Baron: Fine Arts/NY Woodwind | winds and strings | LP | dates uncertain |
1959 | Gould | piano | VHS | Cp 1 only: film "Off the Record" |
1962 | Gould | organ | LP & CD | 1-9 only; other piano excerpts added on Sony CD |
1963 | Swingle Singers | vocal ens | LP | Cp 9 only; date approximate |
1965 | Scherchen, Toronto | orch | CD | Tachezi on harpsichord |
1965 | Scherchen, Vienna | orch | LP | Gilbert on harpsichord |
1965 | W von Karajan & friends | 3 organs | Cass | date approximate; only a dub from someone's LP |
1966 | Munchinger/Stuttgart | orch | LP | |
1967 | Ahlgrimm | pedal harpsichord | CD | |
1967 | Gould | piano | CD | Music & Arts: radio: Cp 9, 11, half of 18 |
1967 | Munclinger/Ars Rediviva | orch | LP & CD | |
1967 | Rosen | piano | LP & CD | |
1969 | Leonhardt | harpsichord | LP & CD | Program notes reproduce Leonhardt's book about KdF as a keyboard piece |
1969 | Rogg | organ | LP | |
1974 | Alain | organ | LP | Erato, reissued on MHS |
1974 | Marriner | orch | CD | |
1974 | Payne | overdubbed harpsichord | LP | "Spaced-Out Bach", only Cp 9 and half of Cp 18 |
1975 | Opera String Trio | string trio | LP | arr by Mozart: Cp 8 only |
1977 | Rubsam | organ | CD | Philips |
1977 | Tachezi | organ | CD | |
1978 | Los Angeles Sax Qt | saxophones | CD | guidance of Sol Babitz; date uncertain |
1978 | Malloch/Foss | orch | LP & CD | wild orchestration by Malloch; very fast tempos |
1981 | Bagger | harpsichord | CD | |
1981 | Gould | piano | VHS | Cp 14 only |
1983 | Pommer | orch | LP & CD | part recorded in 1984 |
1984 | Kocsis | piano | LP | |
1984 | Musica Antiqua Koeln | string qt & harpsichords | CD | Hill & Staier on harpsichords |
1985 | Borciani | string qt | CD | |
1985 | Moroney | harpsichord | CD | |
1986 | Savall | winds and strings | CD | 4 viols, 4 Renaissance winds |
1987 | Canadian Brass | brass qnt | CD | dedicated to Glenn Gould |
1987 | Hill | harpsichord | CD | early version |
1987 | Juilliard Qt | string qt | CD | specially constructed viola for tenor line |
1987 | Zacher | organ | CD | 10 interpretations of Cp 1 only |
1989 | Amherst Sax Qt | saxophones | CD | Cp 1, 3, 5, 9 only |
1989 | Gilbert | harpsichord | CD | early version |
1990 | Berlin Sax Qt | saxophones | CD | |
1990 | Koroliov | piano | CD | |
1991 | Sokolov | piano | CD | |
1992 | Rubsam | organ | CD | Naxos |
1993 | Koopman & Mathot | 2 harpsichords | CD | |
1993 | Malgoire | orch | CD | |
1994 | Alexander & Daykin | 2 pianos | CD | booklet has excellent survey of arrangements |
1995 | Lagace | organ | CD | |
1995 | MacGregor | piano | CD | disc 2 includes music by Nancarrow |
1996 | Feltsman | piano | CD | |
1997 | Phantasm | viol qt | CD | |
1998 | Alessandrini | chamber group | CD | harpsichord, winds, strings |
1998 | Hill | harpsichord | CD | with appendix to cover both versions |
1998 | Koito | organ | CD | Dom Bedos organ in modified meantone |
1999 | Delme Qt | string qt | CD | arr by Robert Simpson into G minor |
1999 | Isoir | organ | CD | |
1999 | van Delft | harpsichord | CD | |
2000 | Calefax | reed qnt | CD | oboes, saxes, clarinets, basset horn, bassoon |
2001 | Baudet/Swierstra/Zipperling | string trio | CD | arr by Mozart: Cp 8 only |
2003 | Brookshire | harpsichord | CD | not released yet |
2005 | Lehman | harpsichord | CD | Cp 3 only, illustrating its enharmonic shifts; using Bach's own temperament |
2005 | Riemer | fortepiano | CD |
Also, cassettes as study tapes from my own concert performances.
See also: Movement-ordering logic in the autograph and print versions.
Related composition: Ferruccio Busoni's "Fantasia Contrappuntistica", an elaboration of Contrapunctus 14. A score of the solo piano version is available from Dover Publications. The recordings I have (so far) are by: Egon Petri, Peter Serkin/Richard Goode, Ursula Oppens/Paul Jacobs, John Ogdon, Andras Schiff/Peter Serkin, Wolf Harden, Joseph Banowetz/Ronald Stevenson, Christopher O'Riley, Velislava Georgieva/Krassimir Taskov, Allan Schiller/John Humphreys. I have also heard Viktoria Postnikova's recording but didn't keep it....