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
Chorale cantata cycle pp. 707–714 in Part II: Church Cantatas of "The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text". Oxford: OUP, 2006. </ref> Bach composed more cantatas for his chorale cantata cycle after Trinity 1725, apparently in an effort to have a complete standard year cycle consisting exclusively of such cantatas: All six of these chorale cantatas remained in the chorale cantata cycle kept at St.Thomas. Two chorale cantatas replacing other cantatas composed for occasions between Easter and Trinity 1725 also remained in the St.Thomas collection: There is uncertainty regarding four additional extant chorale cantatas as to time