Bach cantata her company in staged productions, "The Peasant Cantata" and "The Coffee Cantata". In 1931 a recording was made of a performance of , in Barcelona. The number of performances and recordings increased in the decades after the Second World War. In the early 1950s Fritz Lehmann recorded several cantatas with the Berliner Motettenchor and the Berlin Philharmonic. From 1953, Max Thurn conducted for the broadcaster NDR a series of Bach cantatas, with members of the NDR Chor and members of the NDR Sinfonieorchester. Karl Richter called his choir programmatically Münchener Bach-Chor in 1954 and recorded about a third of the
Late church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach cantata "Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn", BWV 23, in four movements. In Lent only two occasions allowed for concerted music: "Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubilieret", BWV 31 was an Easter cantata Bach had composed in Weimar. He had already restaged it during his first year in Leipzig, and did so again on Easter . Apart from that he expanded his Easter cantata from 1725, "Kommt, eilet und laufet", BWV 249 into an oratorio (several versions), and restaged it multiple times in the last 20 years of his office as Thomaskantor. For Easter Monday, "Bleib bei uns, denn es