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.
BWV 244
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116686
Novello Handel Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 225360
Version von 1900 (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 580480
Arie (Engel) aus dem Oratorium "Elias", op. 70
bearbeitet für Alt-Solo und Orgel (dt./en.)
for: Voice (alto), organ
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 2077
Opern-Oratorium in 2 Akten nach Sophokles
for: Narrator, soloists, male choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198784
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; percussion ad lib.
Organ reduction
Item no.: 686487
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 374559
Oratorio in 3 Parts for Soloists (SATB), Choir and Orchestra (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 379050
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 404234
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489920
Warm-ups for Successful Performance
Chorleiterband
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 664538
Für den Klavierauszug (Orgel) und die Chorpartitur gelten Mengenpreise
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 119521
mit Variantensätzen, englisch
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 550567
aus dem Oratorium "Samson"
for: Voice (soprano), trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 184300
I know that my Redeemer liveth
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 731217
Novello Handel Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 327698
Oratorium
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soli (SATB), gemischter Chor, Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 471508
Hob XXI:3
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 697309
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 677221
Effektive Unterstützung beim individuellen Einstudieren
Ausgabe für Tenor
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 661154
Novello Handel Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 344563
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 137420
Oratorium
Piano reduction
Item no.: 354116
Oratorio
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 476444
Oratorio in Three Parts HWV 56
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116219
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284224
An unfinished Oratorio
Erde, Hölle und Himmel (MWV A 26)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318553
für drei Solostimmen, gemischten Chor und Orchester
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 551923
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 551928
Dramatische Version 1921 – Bläserfassung
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 120391
Oratorium in drei Teilen – Klavierauszug (englisch)
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 334081
Klavierauszug XL im Großdruck englisch
with variant movements
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 661149
aus: Kleine geistliche Konzerte II
for: Mixed choir (SSB) [male chorus (TTB)], basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423224
Eine Kantate für: Tenor-Solo, gemischten Chor, KInderchor, Klavier, Streicher, Schlagzeug und Orgel
Piano reduction
Item no.: 242954
Hob. XXII: 2
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 382310
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680065
Oratorio for Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra
New edition based on original sources (Urtext)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 155706
Postcard
Item no.: 557063
for violin and viola
for: Violin, viola
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 684853
Dover Full Scores
for: Orchestra and Mixed Voices
Score
Item no.: 190889
für Violine und Generalbass
Heft III: Sonata XI - XVI
for: Violin, basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 304640
Oratorio a quattro con istromenti
Musiche italiane del Settecento. Fondazione Arcadia IV
for: Voices, instruments
Music score
Item no.: 777345
aus: Messiah
for: Choir, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 177706
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 169617
am Palmsonntag oder am Fest Mariae Verkündigung
Score
Item no.: 344592
Arie aus der Matthäus-Passion
Hosianna
13
for: Voice (alto), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 760457
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/5 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 215847