指揮：佐藤 俊介 Shunske Sato
Netherlands Bach Society
Recorded for the project All of Bach on 27 May 2021 at the Walloon Church in Amsterdam.
O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht (O Jesus Christ, light of my life), BWV 118,[a] is a sacred motet composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is known to have been performed at a funeral, and was possibly a generic work intended for funerals. When the work was first published in the nineteenth century it was called a cantata, perhaps because it has an instrumental accompaniment. While it is not an a cappella work, modern scholarship accepts it is a motet.
The piece is scored for four-part choir. It is structured as a chorus, O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht, comprising chorale strophes separated by repeated instrumental interludes. The number of strophes sung would likely correspond to the length of the procession for which the work was used.
"O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht" (O Jesus Christ, light of my life) おおイエス キリスト、わが命の光