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JS Bach’s ‘Ich habe genug’: a guide to the best recordings

Lindsay Kemp
Monday, November 6, 2023

The meditative Cantata No 82, among the most emotive of Bach’s 200 or so such works, has inspired a range of highly effective recordings over the past three-quarters of a century

Simeon holding the infant Christ in Fra Angelico’s 15th-century ‘Presentation of Jesus at the Temple’, the event behind Bach’s beautiful Cantata (photo: Bridgeman Images)
Simeon holding the infant Christ in Fra Angelico’s 15th-century ‘Presentation of Jesus at the Temple’, the event behind Bach’s beautiful Cantata (photo: Bridgeman Images)

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