Motet BWV 118: O Jesu Christ, my Life and Light (full score)
1st and 2nd Version - Breitkopf Urtext
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Editor: Enßlin, Wolfram
Motet BWV 118: O Jesu Christ, my Life and Light (full score)
1st and 2nd Version - Breitkopf Urtext
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Editor: Enßlin, Wolfram
Instrumentation: mixed choir, orchestra
Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel
Catalogue No: PB4618
ISMN: 979-0-004-21479-4
Shop Product Code: 268834D
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Urtext of Both Versions
The new edition of BWV 118 presents the work in the two different instrumental settings that are authenticated through the autograph scores: the earlier version with solely brass instruments, and the later one with mixed instruments. Both versions are printed consecutively. Of particular interest for an authentic performance are two “Litui,” which are called for in both versions. To this day it has been impossible to determine what instruments are meant here: high horns in B flat? Or trumpets? The work has more unanswered questions for us – for example, the occasion for which the first version was written in ca. 1736/37, and the reason why the work was newly orchestrated after 1740.
