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 (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 229934
Händel-Handbuch 3
Book
Item no.: 487153
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
Bläserstimmen (kompletter Satz)
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 671875
Leichte Ausgaben Fuer Schulorchester
for: Symphonic orchestra
Item no.: 429044
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts (Wind instruments)
Item no.: 462091
Schütz-Gesamteinspielung, Band 9
Audio-CD
Item no.: 677168
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605232
Item no.: 616439
Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 232805
Lyric book
Item no.: 140976
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 664221
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 620245
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 422166
Trio and Chorus from the Oratorio 'The Creation Hob XXI:2'
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1667065
Score
Item no.: 174618
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 232227
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 oboes, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 234641
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Music score
Item no.: 820110
for: Soloist, rapper, narrator, 2 choirs (satb/sam), trombone choir, band, organ
Score
Item no.: 692652
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 590125
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 173184
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 246279
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1340489
for: Chor Gemischter Chor (SA & Männerst.), Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1340283
for: Chor SAA, Orgel (Instr-Harm)
Score
Item no.: 1340205
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1338923
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 198781
for: 3 recorders (SSA)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1587
for: Soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1717737
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 762444
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285538
for: 2 flutes [violins]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 113509
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 112877
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (SBar), Kinderchor (SMezA), 2 Orgeln und Instrumental-Ensemble
Piano reduction
Item no.: 304274
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Soli (SATB), Sprecher und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 351246
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 486546
Ensemble score
Item no.: 560189
from the Oratorio Messiah HWV 56
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 194355
Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 145233
Oratorio on Words from the Holy Scriptures
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 271715
Book
Item no.: 136482
for: Recorder and Windensemble
Book
Item no.: 199772
for: Sopran, Bariton, Sprechstimme, gemischter Chor (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB, dazu 9 Knaben, S/A) und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 352493
Sacred Oratorios
for: Trumpet
Music score
Item no.: 1671556
Oratorium
Audio - Doppel-CD
2 CDs (without sheet music)
Item no.: 1665508
Oratorium
Audio - Doppel-CD
2 CDs (without sheet music)
Item no.: 562652
Oratorio
Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloist, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 765430
für Sopran und Klavier
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SINGSTIMME MIT TASTENINSTRUMENT
Item no.: 1658405