Looking for a wide selection of Oratorios from various periods of music history, then you’ve come to the right place! Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all the wonderfully dramatic sacred works on offer from Stretta Music today!
In 1700, Pope Clement IX banned the latest wave of explicit and violent opera in Rome for five whole years. But not even his own members of the Roman Curia wanted to forego the dramatic musical pleasures, so they gave established opera composers such as Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonio Caldara theatrical spiritual texts to set to music. These new works were performed in the oratories, the prayer rooms of monasteries, without any staging or set. This is how a genre got its name, the oratorio, and it was in essence, musically identical to opera.
One of the most famous arias by Georg Frideric Handel, his Lascia ch’io pianga which is well known from his hugely popular opera Rinaldo, originally comes from his first oratorio “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno”.
The genre became just as successful as opera, and as opera moved into the 20th & 21st centuries with modern rock operas like Tommy by The Who, the oratorio has also evolved, with works such as “Luther” by Dieter Falk.
Audio-CD
Item no.: 456083
for: Flute
Spielpartitur, Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 190689
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar/AATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 472407
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 130494
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 477437
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765212
Oratorium
for: SSAA , Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 902169
from Oratorio de Noël
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198413
Christmas for Band
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 482591
Textheft
Lyric book
Item no.: 235905
Gospel-Oratorium zur Weihnachtsgeschichte nach dem Lukas-Evangelium
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 337934
Teil II: Die Kantaten zum Sonntag nach Weihnachten bis Epiphanias
Denkmäler Mitteldeutscher Barockmusik II / 6
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 656701
Weihnachtsoratorium für Soli, Sprecher, Chor und Orchester
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 365392
Himmelfahrtsoratorium, Osteroratorium, Weihnachtsoratorium
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
3 CDs
Item no.: 1018175
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1582667
aus: Messiah (Nr. 1215)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 236016
(Critical Report)
for: 5 solo voices (SATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Book (critical commentary)
Item no.: 433323
Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte
for: Narrator, mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 671410
Nr. 11 aus der "Weihnachtsgeschichte"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 732283
for: Solo voice, women's choir, chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 658527
for: Voice (bass), organ
Score
Item no.: 582667
Score
Item no.: 885345
for: Soli SSATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Flöten (2), Oboen (2), Oboe d'amore (2), Oboe da caccia (2), Trompeten (3), Pauke, Hörner (2), Violinen (2), Viola, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1586535
Texheft (Faksimile) (Facsimile)
Book
Item no.: 424304
for: Children's choir (1 voice), the parish, instruments
Score
Item no.: 423769
for: Two-Part Treble Voices [SA], Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1037783
Songbook
Item no.: 344235
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 385463
Illustrated book, CD
Item no.: 693612
for: Soli SSSTBB, Coro SATB
Partitur
Item no.: 649726
Book
Item no.: 444294
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 557223
Coach Me - Tenor Solo
2 Playback-CDs (without sheet music)
Item no.: 1666555
from the Christmas Oratorio
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 681074
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 298434
nach Worten der Heiligen Schrift
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]; orchestra ad lib.
Set of parts (Orchestra)
Item no.: 302115
Audio-CD
Item no.: 158756
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
CD
Item no.: 472391
Eine tierisch-afrikanische Weihnachtsgeschichte mit Musik
Piano reduction
Item no.: 462571
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Complete Wind Parts
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235659
Ankündigung der Geburt Jesu. Evangeliendialog. Aus: Kleine geistliche Konzerte II
gleicher Notentext wie Ave Maria SWV 334
for: 2 soloists (SA), favorit choir (SSATB), 5 melodic instruments, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 231803
Oratorio fragment
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Complete Orchestral Parts (Part 1 and 2)
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 683339
Ein Hausbuch weihnachtlicher Musik
for: 1–3 voices, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 387185
Kirchenoratorium
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 244109
Neue Weihnachtslieder für Kinder
CD
CD
Item no.: 638305
CD
Item no.: 552122
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1652433
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