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.: 458296
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 371538
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 672331
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 681478
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 235985
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 423795
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
Complete orchestral parts
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 649420
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score (with piano part)
Item no.: 462812
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 418665
aus dem Weihnachts-Oratorium III. Teil
for: 3 trumpets, organ, timpani
Score, Parts
Item no.: 778035
Weihnachtsoratorium (Erstdruck)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ; 2 horns ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 657000
Book
Item no.: 585096
für Corno da caccia und Orgel
aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248
Collection Ebehard Klotz
for: Trumpet, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 1351745
Choralpartita aus der "Weihnachtsgeschichte" op. 10
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114767
Die Bibel Unserer Kinder~Anne De Vries
Audio-CD
Item no.: 303783
Kirchenoratorium
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1656274
eingesungen von der Gaechinger Cantorey unter Leitung von Hans-Christoph Rademann
2 CDs (without sheet music)
Item no.: 673084
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1664390
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 174861
for: 3 Trompeten und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 627946
Lyric book
Item no.: 1681411
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 621397
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2 parts), 3 mallets (SAB) [organ]
Score
Item no.: 362710
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1659605
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1629809
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 995063
Ein Weihnachtsspiel
Piano reduction
Item no.: 726664
Opera-extravaganza in 2 acts
Piano reduction
Item no.: 759472
Ein deutsches Weihnachtsliederspiel nach oberbayerischen und tiroler Weisen
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 751563
for: MUSIKBÜCHER GESAMTAUSGABEN
Item no.: 656785
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1009538
for: Voice (high), basso continuo; organ ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 2753
for: für Soli, gemischten Chor (und kleinen Frauenchor), Knabenchor, Streichorchester (mit Gamben), Cembalo und Orgel
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 142017
From Messiah
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 559566
for: SSA , Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1041773
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317410
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317408
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 317885
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 419212
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 392287
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196662
for: Narrator, mixed choir, instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 371725
for: Narrator, mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 214874
Piano reduction
Item no.: 351997
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 115685
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 157860
for: Soloists, mixed choir, big band
Piano reduction
Item no.: 579435
for: Streicher, [Bläser)
Partitur, Stimmen, Cembalo (mit Kopiererlaubnis)
Item no.: 137163