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.
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 772538
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284933
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 1108933
for: 2 violins [violin, viola], piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 606224
Piano reduction
Item no.: 380508
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196757
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392180
for: für Soli: hoher Sopran, Tenor, 2 Bariton, 4 Sprecher, Chor SMezSATBarB ( 12-stimmig ) und Orchester
Studienpartitur
Item no.: 245939
Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 475480
Arie aus dem Oratorium "Assalone"
Edition Immer
Reihe IV: Werke mit Gesang
for: Voice (tenor), 2 trumpets, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1351749
Moderne Oratorien
Audio-CD
Item no.: 243773
für Vorsänger (Schola) und Begleitung
for: Voice, organ
Music score
Item no.: 635259
Moderne Oratorien
for: Voice, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 243782
for: 3 soloists (MezTBar), children's choir, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1563224
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1681987
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 229933
for: Mixed choir, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 294613
for: Solo voice (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), parish, instruments
Score
Item no.: 469201
for: Voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 858245
for: SOLI GCH ORCH CBO
Score
Item no.: 147111
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 295550
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 620237
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (XL format)
Item no.: 677224
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 684350
Oratorio for soprano, baritone, spoken voice, mixed choir (and 9 boys' voices, S/A) and orchestra
for: Sopran, Bariton, Sprechstimme, gemischter Chor (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB, dazu 9 Knaben, S/A) und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 748520
Arie aus dem Oratorium "Sancta Ferma"
for: Sopran, Flöte und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 738640
for: 2 narrators, 2 soloists, mixed choir, bass guitar, instruments
Score
Item no.: 660142
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 663349
Illustrated book, CD
Item no.: 770568
for: Soli TTBB, Chor TTBB
Score
Item no.: 1338988
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1338914
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340209
for: Soli SATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Flöten (2), Oboen (2), Klarinetten (2), Fagotte (2), Hörner (4), Trompeten (2), Posaunen (3), Ophikleide, Pauke, Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1337256
Book (Hardcover), CD
Item no.: 696376
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 428144
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 491499
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321855
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Item no.: 106538
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 306858
Oratorio in two Parts
Rome 1707
for: Voices, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1022131
Oratorio
for Soli, Chorus and Orchestra
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 180205
Oratorio on Words from the Holy Scriptures
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 341541
Trio and Chorus from the Oratorio 'The Creation Hob XXI:2'
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 284590
Book
Item no.: 371094
for: Gesang, Gemischter Chor, Orchester
Choir score
Item no.: 335124
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 360913
for: 2 gemischte Chöre a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 633642