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
Church cantata (Bach) liturgical year with "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland", BWV 62 for the first Sunday in Advent, and kept the plan up to "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern", BWV 1, performed on Palm Sunday. For the occasions from Easter to Trinity, he composed no chorale cantatas based exclusively on one hymn, but wrote a few of them in later years, such as "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", BWV 140, for the 28th Sunday after Trinity which had not occurred in 1724. Bach's second (Leipzig) cantata cycle consists of cantatas first performed from (first Sunday after Trinity) to (Trinity). The first