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.
CD mit Erzählung und 10 Liedern zu Daniel und 4 Adventsliedern
CD
Item no.: 343802
Ein deutsches Weihnachtsliederspiel nach oberbayerischen und tiroler Weisenop. 85
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 214695
à 7 overo 15
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 480296
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 210135
pour Chant et Piano
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 283795
Musik zwischen Elbe und Oder Band 12
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 432994
für vier Querflöten
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 418665
Ein kommentiertes Singspielverzeichnis für die Weihnachtszeit
für Kindergarten, Grundschule und Kinderchor
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 458296
Lieder aus der Kantate für Hausmusik
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 114739
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 672331
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 371538
Weihnachtsoratorium (Gesamtausgabe) (Complete edition)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Item no.: 319067
über Lukas 2,1-10
Partitur
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 423795
Kommentierung des Textes aus theologischer Sicht von Paul-Gerhard Nohl
Book
Item no.: 476872
für Soli, Chor und Orchester
Chorpartitur
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 184758
for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 333326
Stimmensatz
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 681478
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
Complete orchestral parts
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 649420
Discovery Level 2
for: VoiceTrax CD
CD
Item no.: 798590
Weihnachtsmusical für Kinder von 6-12 Jahren
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score (with piano part)
Item no.: 462812
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 179907
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 235985
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1645191
for: Brass ensemble (10 parts)
Item no.: 602339
Evangelisten-Stimme für einen Solisten oder einstimmigen Chor
Brieger Christnacht 1944
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, strings, organ
Single part voice
Item no.: 489054
Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte nach Lukas unter Verwendung bekannter und weniger bekannter Weihnachtslieder
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 158026
op. 54
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Viola
Item no.: 135944
für Sprecher, Soli, Kinderchor und kleines Orchester – Textblatt schwedisch
Für Kinder ab 8 Jahren geeignet.
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 160604
Klassik
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 335363
Kantaten I - VI
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Bläserstimmen (kompletter Satz)
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 601648
Kantaten I - VI
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 587159
Kantaten I - VI
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 587157
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 343026
Ankündigung der Geburt Jesu. Evangeliendialog. Aus: Kleine geistliche Konzerte II
gleicher Notentext wie Sei gegrüßet Maria SWV 333
for: 2 soloists (SA), favorit choir (SSATB), 5 melodic instruments, organ
Score
Item no.: 231807
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
KV 49 (47d)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236786
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
KV 49 (47d)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236785
Actus musicus auf Weih-Nachten (Luk. 2, 1-20)
for: gemischter Chor (SSATB) mit Soli (ST) und Orchester
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 343420
Actus musicus auf Weih-Nachten (Luk. 2, 1-20)
for: gemischter Chor (SSATB) mit Soli (ST) und Orchester
Single part Trombone 3
Item no.: 343415
Actus musicus auf Weih-Nachten (Luk. 2, 1-20)
for: gemischter Chor (SSATB) mit Soli (ST) und Orchester
Single part Trombone 1
Item no.: 343413
für Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 362094
“Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit“
for: 2 soloists (ST), 2 mixed choirs (SSATB, SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230452
for: Flute / Oboe / Mallet Percussion
Book, CD
Item no.: 475132
Piano reduction
Item no.: 241834
Bearbeitung für Soli, Chor und Orgel
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 473344
The Christmas Story with songs, spirituals and words based on St. Luke's Gospel. SAA - Basic edition for treble choir, soli and narrator
for: Soloist (alto), women's choir (SAA), narrator; guitar/keyboard ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 216116
nach Worten der Bibel und des Gesangbuches (Letztfassung 1963)
mit den Turmgesängen
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 167469
A compelling retelling of the Christmas story
with Flute part
for: 3 soloists (MezTB), mixed choir (SATB), flute, organ
Organ reduction, Solo part
Item no.: 692649
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317716