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: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 342225
from Oratorio de Noël
for: Symphonic Band and Choir Ad Lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198615
Choral aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 473952
CD Live-Mitschnitt eines Konzertes am 29. November 2009 in der Evangelischen Stadtkirche Ravensburg
Audio-CD
Item no.: 577879
G
Piano reduction
Item no.: 236043
Bring and raise Offerings
Final movement of the Christmas Oratorio, op. 12
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 665181
Weihnachtskantate (Gesamtausgabe) (Complete edition)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Item no.: 237686
Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte
Symphonic Poem from Charles Dickens
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1629063
Kirchenoratorium
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 689962
for: Soli (ST), gemischter Chor (SSATB)
Score
Item no.: 236291
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 236014
for: Harp
Music score
Item no.: 1015039
for: Children's choir, piano [guitar]
Score
Item no.: 343679
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (SSA), flute, clarinet, strings, harp
Score
Item no.: 1555843
for: KCH BL STR KLAV
Score
Item no.: 156332
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 117128
Ein deutsches Weihnachtsliederspiel nach oberbayerischen und tiroler Weisen
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 748087
Christmas concerto
for: Soli, gemischter Chor, Streicher und Basso continuo
Streicherstimmensatz Violine I,II, Viola, Violoncello, Basso continuo (Violoncello)
Item no.: 723397
nach Worten der Heiligen Schrift
für Soli, Chor und Orgel oder Orchester
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]; orchestra ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 137636
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 463842
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 610791
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 211009
for: SATB, Keyboard [Organ or Piano] or Flute, 4 Oboes and Strings
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1037473
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 274625
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 764120
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 764106
for: Sopran solo, Tenöre solo (2), Bariton solo, Bässe solo (3), Gemischter Chor: SSAATTBB, Flöten (2), Piccoloflöte, Oboen (2), Englischhorn, Klarinetten (2), Fagotte (2), Hörner (2), Trompeten (2), Piston (2), Posaunen (3), Pauke, Harfe, Orgel, Harmonium, Streicher
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 633376
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 287172
for: Flöten (2), Fagotte (2), Trompeten (2), Posaunen (2), Violinen (2), Violen (2), Posaune, Violetta, 1. Viola, Violetta, 2. Viola, Cello, Gambe, Kontrabass, Cello, Kontrabass, Basso continuo
Stimmensatz, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 186714
Book
Item no.: 367549
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition), 2 CDs
Item no.: 383033
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Soli, Sprecher und Instrumenten
Score
Item no.: 736844
for: gemischter Chor (SSATB) mit Soli (ST) und Orchester
Choir score
Item no.: 343408
from the Christmas Oratorio
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 673253
Die Bibel Unserer Kinder~Anne De Vries
Songbook
Item no.: 303781
Brieger Christnacht 1944
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, strings, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 177431
Die Krippe / The Manger
Oratorium
for: 5 solo voices (SATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 229930
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 371393
Kantate für Sopran (Kinderchor), 2 Violinen, Viola und Bc
for: Voice (high), instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 343991
Weihnachtsoratorium in drei Teilen
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 490430
Singspiel zu Weihnachten
for: Children's choir (1 voice), the parish, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 231467
for: Voice
Songbook
Item no.: 632773
for: Solo M, Chor SSA, 2–3 Melodie-Instrumente
Score
Item no.: 230175
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 470976
for: Soloists, mixed choir, big band
Score
Item no.: 371508
for: 2 soloists (SA), favorit choir (SSATB), 5 melodic instruments, organ
Score
Item no.: 231806
for: 2 soloists (ST), 2 mixed choirs (SSATB, SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 230447
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 746211