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
Cantata Singers and Ensemble “Ich habe genug,” and Cantata BWV 72 “Alles nur nach Gottes Willen.” Cantata Singers’ 50th anniversary “Celebration of Bach Cantatas” will feature those same three exquisite cantatas. Beloved baritone and Bach specialist James Maddalena will join Cantata Singers to perform Cantata 82. Cantata Singers will give its first-ever holiday concert—Claudio Monteverdi's stunning "Vespers of 1610 (Vespro della Beata Vergine)"—in the beautiful acoustics of St. Paul's Church in Cambridge on Saturday, December 7, 2013 at 8:00pm. Monteverdi's "Vespers", which was last performed by the ensemble in 1992, will be presented with a full period instrument ensemble. Then, in the spirit of