complex structure, it is not only a da capo aria of three sections framed by a ritornello of the strings, but repeats the first section in the center of the middle section. Frequent use of pedal point suggests rest, fermatas stop the forward motion, as described by Mincham who writes, "The frequent pauses, where everything temporarily comes to a standstill, are suggestive of that peaceful closing of life where there is no activity and disorder is a thing of the past". A short secco recitative, beginning "" (My God! When will the lovely 'now!' come), ends with a downward continuo line, suggesting both "taking one's leave and being lowered into the welcoming grave". The concluding aria is a joyful dance, anticipating death as the fulfillment of desire, "" (I am looking forward to my death). The "joyful longing for the hereafter" is expressed by "agile coloraturas that characterize the entire movement". Mincham notes that the final aria corresponds to the first in similarity of the scoring with the obbligato instrument, key, and triple time. The final aria is faster, marked "vivace". The text first treats the "joy of anticipation of death and the desire for it to happen imminently", then, treated in the middle section, the "conviction that death will release us from the misery of the world to which we have been chained". Recordings As one of the best known of Bach's church cantatas, set for both a male and a female soloist, it is "the most frequently recorded of all the Bach cantatas over a period of more than sixty years", with 101 complete recordings listed, and several more of individual movements, especially the version from Anna Magdalena Bach's notebook. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau recorded the cantata three times, in 1951 with Karl Ristenpart, in July 1968 with Karl Richter, in 1983 with Helmuth Rilling. In 1966, Janet Baker was the soloist in a recording conducted by Yehudi Menuhin. J. S. Bach: Cantata No. 82 – Ich habe genug, Walter Susskind, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hans Hotter, Columbia (unissued) 1948 Bach: Kantaten BWV 56 & 82, Karl Ristenpart, Kammerorchester Karl Ristenpart, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Archiv Produktion 1951 Bach Cantatas No. 56 & 82, Geraint Jones, The Geraint Jones Orchestra, Gérard Souzay, His Master's Voice 1959 Les Grandes Cantates de J.S. Bach Vol. 18, Fritz Werner, Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, Barry McDaniel, Erato 1964 J. S. Bach: Cantatas Nos. 56 & 82, John Shirley-Quirk, Academy