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.
Weihnachtsoratorium op. 12
Carus Choir Coach Alt
mp3-CD
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part alto)
Item no.: 665248
Carus Choir Coach Tenor – Weihnachtsoratorium
mp3-CD
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 673092
mit Werken von Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770-1846)
for: Narrator, organ
Score
Item no.: 1657316
Weihnachtsoratorium op. 12
Carus Choir Coach Bass
mp3-CD
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part bass)
Item no.: 679592
Carus Choir Coach Bass – Weihnachtsoratorium
mp3-CD
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part bass)
Item no.: 679192
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Tenor
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
2 Playback-CDs (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 299181
for: School class
Book, CD
Item no.: 1207674
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Alto
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
2 Playback-CDs (choir part alto)
Item no.: 299180
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Bass
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
2 Playback-CDs (choir part bass)
Item no.: 299182
60 geistliche Stücke für Männerchor
vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 618342