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.
Novello Handel Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 225360
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116686
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 697309
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 551928
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 120388
for: Narrator, soloists, male choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198784
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 374559
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 404234
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 631238
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 346649
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489920
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 635983
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 664538
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 119521
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 550567
for: Voice (soprano), trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 184300
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 327698
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 677221
for: Soli (SATB), gemischter Chor, Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 471508
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 661154
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 344563
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284224
Piano reduction
Item no.: 354116
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 137420
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318553
for: Soli (SSATB), Streicher, Basso continuo; Chor (SSATB) ad libitum
Score
Item no.: 234322
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 551923
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 120391
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 661149
for: Soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 334081
for: Mixed choir (SSB) [male chorus (TTB)], basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423224
Piano reduction
Item no.: 242954
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 382310
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 215192
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680065
Oratorio in three parts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 476443
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 460652
Oratorio for Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra
New edition based on original sources (Urtext)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 155706
for: Violin, viola
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 684853
Oratorio
for: Soli BarBMSMezATTB, Chor SSTB, 2 Flöten, 2 Oboen, 4 Klarinetten, 2 Fagotte, 4 Hörner, 2 Trompeten, 3 Posaunen, Pauken, 2 Violinen, Viola, Violoncello, Kontrabass
Piano reduction
Item no.: 226103
for: Voices, instruments
Music score
Item no.: 777345
for: Orchestra and Mixed Voices
Score
Item no.: 190889
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 169617
for: Violin, basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 304640
Postcard
Item no.: 557063
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 177706
Arie aus der Matthäus-Passion
for: Voice (alto), piano
Music score
Item no.: 760457
Oratorium Hob. XXI:2,
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605234