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 and Pentecost which were each celebrated for a period of three days. His Easter cantata , is a parody of six of eight movements of the cantata for New Year's Day, . Six movements of his congratulatory cantata , form the cantata for Pentecost Monday of 1724, ; while a seventh movement was made part of the cantata for Pentecost Tuesday of 1725, . Bach's four short masses are parodies of cantata movements; he used several movements of , for two of them. When he compiled his Mass in B minor, he again used many cantata movements, such as a