1. The table of Cantata Recordings by Major Conductors (in 5 parts) includes only CD editions from complete Cantata Cycles, or by conductors who recorded a significant number of Bach Cantatas.

2. For a complete list of participants and dates of each album, look at the relevant pages of each conductor.

3. XX/YY = the left number (XX) in the Volume number. The right number (YY) is the CD number in that Volume.

4. Hänssler / Helmuth Rilling:
- Ed 1 = 1^st CD Edition
- Ed 2 = 2^nd CD Edition (included in Edition Bachakademie)

5. Archiv / Karl Richter is only a partial cycle.

6. Teldec / Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Gustav Leonhardt:
- 1^st Edition, which was a direct reissue of the LP Edition is no longer available.
- Ed 2 = 2^nd CD edition
- Ed 3 = 3^rd CD Edition (included in Bach-2000)
- NH = Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- GL = Gustav Leonhardt
- TK = Ton Koopman
- FW = Fritz Werner
- JS = Jaap Schröder
- RG = Reinhard Goebel
- AR = André Rieu

7. Erato (Vols. 1-12) & Antoine Marchand (Vol. 13 onward + reissues of Vols. 1-12) / Ton Koopman has not completed yet his Cantata Cycle.

8. BIS / Masaaki Suzuki has not completed yet his Cantata Cycle.

9. Brilliant Classics / Pieter Jan Leusink's Cantata Cycle is included in their Bach Edition (sold in Netherlands by Kruidvat drugstore chain)
- PJL = Pieter Jan Leusink
- PS = Peter Schreier (Vol. 7)

10. Berlin Classics series (under the subnames Leipzig Classics and Dresden Classics) is called 'Bach Made in German'. The first 4 volumes are dedicated to recordings by Thomaskantors
- GR = Günther Ramin (Vol. 1)
- KT = Kurt Thomas (Vol. 2)
- EM = Erhard Mauersberger (Vol. 3)
- HJR = Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (Vol. 4)
- LG = Ludwig Güttler (Vol. 5)
- PS = Peter Schreier (Vol. 7)

11. Erato / Fritz Werner
- LP = LP edition
- CD = CD Edition (partial)

12. Erato, Archiv & Soli Deo Gloria / John Eliot Gardiner

13. Virgin & Harmonia Mundi / Philippe Herreweghe

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Prepared by Aryeh Oron (February 2001 – December 2004)

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