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 Stromenti" ("Cantata for solo voice and instruments"). Another cantata in which Bach used that term is . Typically, he began a heading with the abbreviation "J.J." (, "Jesus, help"), followed by the name of the celebration, the beginning of the words and the instrumentation, for example in . Bach often signed his cantatas with SDG, short for ("glory to the only God" / "glory to God alone"). Bach often wrote a title page for the autograph score and copies of the original parts. For example, he titled the parts of "Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir", BWV 38, using