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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.
Arias from Oratorios (with CD)
Music Minus One Soprano
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Piano score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 138624
Oratorium
Klavierauszug XL
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (XL format)
Item no.: 677222
Oratorium für Soli, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Basso continuo
Erste kritische Ausgabe (Fassungen von 1747 und 1758/59)
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SMezTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 677322
Legende
Einzelausgabe aus Band 9 der Rheinberger-Gesamtausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 623064
Oratorium in 3 Teilen für 4 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 379050
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 551928
A Symphony-Cantata after Texts from the Holy Scriptures
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695978
for low voice and piano
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 404235
Novello Handel Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 225360
Oratorio
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 359617
Oratorio
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 476444
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 277979
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 404234
Oratorio in three parts (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 244299
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205772
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444394
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489920
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 346649
Hob. XXII: 2
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 382310
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680065
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 550957
Long considered the noblest, most inspired musical treatment of the crucifixion of Christ, Bach's St. Matthew Passion remains an immensely popular work.
Dover Mini Scores
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 168012
BuxWV 31
Partitur
for: Soli (SSATB), Streicher, Basso continuo; Chor (SSATB) ad libitum
Score
Item no.: 234322
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi SWV 50
Stuttgarter Schütz – Ausgabe
Urtext
for: Favorit choir (SSSATTBarB), mixed choir (SATB), 4 viole da gamba, basso continuo [organ]
Score
Item no.: 425139
Oratorium für 5 Solostimmen (SSTBB), Chor und Orchester
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Conductor score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 146193
Klavierauszug XL Großdruck in Englisch
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 661149
Secular oratorio HWV 58
for: 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 312919
Passio secundum Marcum
First version, first performed in Weimar around 1713 by J. S. Bach
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 241833
Novello Handel Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 344563
Oratorium
Piano reduction
Item no.: 354116
Oratorio
for Soli, Chorus and Orchestra
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284222
Novello Handel Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 327698
New Novello Choral Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 181055
Oratorio in three parts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 476443
Oratorium in drei Akten für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 631238
Choral Suite
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 340008
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 665335
Edition Peters Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 482962
Chamber Version
for: Voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 612466
Abridged Concert Edition – gekürzte Ausgabe
Weltliches Oratorium HWV 58
Special Order Edition
Spiralbindung
for: 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 302988
Oratorio in three acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 138371
Opern-Oratorium in 2 Akten nach Sophokles
for: Narrator, soloists, male choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198784
Eine Kantate für: Tenor-Solo, gemischten Chor, KInderchor, Klavier, Streicher, Schlagzeug und Orgel
Piano reduction
Item no.: 242954
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 460652
aus: Kleine geistliche Konzerte II
for: Mixed choir (SSB) [male chorus (TTB)], basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423224
for: Flute / Oboe / Mallet Percussion
Book, CD
Item no.: 466489
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579893
Oratorio for 4 Soli, Choir and Orchestra HWV 56
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Conductor score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 379043
Book
Item no.: 647601
Oratorium
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 121394
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