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.
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 344592
for: Voice (soprano), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4136
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
Complete orchestral material
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Set of parts
Item no.: 685549
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
New Bach Edition (NBA). II/4
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 139655
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 486523
Zwölf Stimmungsbilder für die Orgel
for: Organ
Item no.: 201993
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 196758
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 147051
for: Voice (soprano), trumpet, organ
3 Performance scores
Item no.: 184299
Aria from the oratorio "The Creation"
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731218
for: Sopran solo, Mezzosopran solo, Alt solo, Tenöre solo (2), Bass solo, Gemischte Chöre (2), Flöten (2), Oboen (2), Fagotte (2), Hörner (2), Trompeten (2), Pauke, Violinen (2), Viola, Bassi (Cello, Kontrabass, Fagott, Cembalo, Orgel)
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489923
Cholera Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 485861
I know that my Redeemer liveth
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731217
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 686625
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285448
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 140486
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 365498
Sacred Oratorios
for: Trumpet
Music score
Item no.: 150973
for: GES-H KLAV,GES-M KLAV
Item no.: 657491
Cholera Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 194084
Piano reduction
Item no.: 494167
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392143
for: Soprane solo (2), Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Flöte, Blockflöten (2), Oboen (2), Fagott, Trompeten (2), Posaune, Violinen (4), Viola, Gambe, Bassi (Cello, Kontrabass, Erzlaute, Bass-Laute, Cembalo)
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 584022
Oratorium für 4 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
Englischer Originaltext (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382295
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 378017
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 487798
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 558777
for: Vocal and Piano Reduction
Piano reduction
Item no.: 606216
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 244524
for: Soprane solo (2), Alt solo, Tenöre solo (6), Bass solo, Gemischter Chor:SATTBB, Oboe, Fagotte (2), Hörner (2), Trompete, Harfe, Streicher, Basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 139625
Oratorio
MWV A 14
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 470975
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 247390
Version von 1900 (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 580480
Studien-Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 492827
for: Voice (alto), organ
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 2077
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 932557
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 930745
for: 3 soloists (MezTB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 396045
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317691
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579893
Arias from Oratorios (with CD)
Music Minus One Soprano
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Piano score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 138624
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 550957
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 665335
Oratorium
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1343728
Alexanderfest oder die Macht der Musik
Oratorium - Kritische Neuausgabe
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 655379