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
Es ist euch gut, daß ich hingehe, BWV 108 table of the movements, the scoring follows the Neue Bach-Ausgabe. The keys and time signatures are taken from Alfred Dürr, using the symbol for common time (4/4). The continuo, playing throughout, is not shown. The cantata presents similarities to the one Bach wrote the previous year for the same occasion, . The similarities begin with the first movement, which like that of the previous year´s cantata, is given to the bass as the "vox Christi". The movement is the quotation of verse 7 from the gospel, beginning: "" (It is good for you that I leave; for if I did