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.
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 423886
Cantata
for: Youth Choir and Instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 373308
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
Bläserstimmen (kompletter Satz)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 582031
A Symphony-Cantata after Texts from the Holy Scriptures
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695979
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung II (1725)
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 612174
from: The Messiah, 2nd Part, No. 31 F major
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra [organ]
Score
Item no.: 236033
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 276776
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 340008
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Alto 1,2
Item no.: 209768
Oratorio in three acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 138371
for: Trumpet
Music score, CD
Item no.: 482198
Book
Item no.: 647601
Oratorio in three acts HWV 70
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 564544
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 618711
for: Soli (SATB), gemischter Chor, Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 471508
Oratorium für 5 Solostimmen (SSTBB), Chor und Orchester
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Conductor score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1681268
Historia des Leidens und Sterbens unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi nach dem Evangelisten Matthäus
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe
for: Favorit choir (SATB), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232139
The Parallel German-English Texts with Annotations
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 885832
Oratorium
Hob. XXI:2
Urtext
Chorpartitur mit englischem Text
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 667961
for: SATB with TBB Soli
Book
Item no.: 902413
(Elias)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1346384
Oratorium
Hob. XXI:2
Urtext
Partitur im Leinenumschlag mit deutschem und englischem Text
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 624643
Arrangement for chamber orchestra (Linckelmann)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 779192
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
– Graduated prices on request –
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1653837
for: SATB Vocal Score
Piano reduction
Item no.: 867451
with piano accompaniment (Fragments from oratorios)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198592
Part 2 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205756
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 373396
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 487822
for low voice and piano
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 404235
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 426010
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Bass 1,2
Item no.: 209771
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
– Graduated prices on request –
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 685547
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 930498
Oratorio in three acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 584023
Arie aus dem Oratorium "Samson" HWV 57
Trompete in D/C/A
Voce con Tromba 25
for: Voice (soprano), trumpet, organ [piano]
Organ score, Parts
Item no.: 204099
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 771431
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 482961
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 334118
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 373395
Oratorio in three acts HWV 70
Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA) I/30
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 619134
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 104500
Oratorio in three parts
for: Soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 196741
for: Soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 676381
Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 632333
Oratorium für Soli, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Basso continuo
Erste kritische Ausgabe (Fassungen von 1747 und 1758/59)
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SMezTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 677322
Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 475481
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 373398