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.
Chamber Version
for: Voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 612466
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205767
Abridged Concert Edition – gekürzte Ausgabe
Weltliches Oratorium HWV 58
Special Order Edition
Spiralbindung
for: 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 302988
Azione sacra
Erstausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 237396
Oratorium für 4 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
HWV 56
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 182833
Oratorium für 4 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 173329
Oratorium für 4 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
HWV 56
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 185284
Opern-Oratorium in 2 Akten nach Sophokles
for: Narrator, soloists, male choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198784
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 460660
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444394
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: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; percussion ad lib.
Organ reduction
Item no.: 686487
Old Novello Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 765446
Oratorio op. 38
for: 3 soloists (MezTB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 322173
Oratorium für Soli, Chor und Orchester in zwei Teilen
Reprint
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 559838
for: Flute / Oboe / Mallet Percussion
Book, CD
Item no.: 466489
Music for Piano
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 346795
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 601371
Passio secundum Marcum
First version, first performed in Weimar around 1713 by J. S. Bach
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 241833
Cantata for Palm Sunday or for the feast of the Annunciation
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 234004
Oratorium für Soli, Chor und Orchester
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 586753
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322813
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1340622
Aria from "Semele"
Medium Voice in G
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 316839
An oratorio
spiral-bound
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 880348
with piano accompaniment (Fragments from oratorios)
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 255809
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489919
A Symphony-Cantata after Texts from the Holy Scriptures
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695978
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680123
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489920
Arie aus dem Oratorium "Sancta Ferma" für Sopran, Flöte und Klavier
for: Voice (soprano), flute, piano
Piano reduction, 2 Parts
Item no.: 129477
Oratorio for 4 Soli, Choir and Orchestra HWV 56
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Conductor score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 379043
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 687206
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1672375
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 423886
Part 2 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
– Graduated prizes on request –
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 205757
Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 485326
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205768
Birthday Ode for Queen Mary
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 161667
Secular oratorio HWV 58
for: 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 312919
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 694836
Oratorium für drei Solostimmen (STB), gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680589
Urtext Stuttgart Handel Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 779138
Oratorio
Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (LMA Serie VI/11)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 487164
A Symphony-Cantata after Texts from the Holy Scriptures
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695976
Oratorium in 3 Akten HWV 70
Vollständige Fassung
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 383020
Oratorium für 4 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
HWV 56
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 154917
Oratorio
for: gemischter Chor (SATB/SATB), Soli (SATB) und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 756324