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
Bach cantata ( or ). These cantatas were performed even after his death, according to Christoph Wolff probably because the well-known hymns were appealing to the audience. The new cantatas Bach composed for Easter of 1725 and afterwards were not chorale cantatas: Two of these, BWV 128 and BWV 68, both starting with a chorale fantasia, are sometimes seen as included in the chorale cantata cycle. Other cantatas by Bach that are usually seen as belonging to the chorale cantata cycle: For four further chorale cantatas it is unclear for which occasion they were composed, and whether they were intended to be