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Oratorios

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An oratorio () is a musical composition with dramatic or narrative text for choir, soloists and orchestra or other ensemble.

thumb|upright=1.2|Ruins of Gurre Castle, 2007 '''''''' (Songs of Gurre) is a tripartite oratorio followed by a melodramatic epilogue for five vocal soloists, narrator, three choruses, and grand orchestra. The work, which is based on an early song cycle for soprano, tenor and piano, was composed by the then-Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg from 1900 to 1903. After a break, he resumed orchestration in 1910 and completed it in November 1911. It sets to music the poem cycle Gurresange'' by the Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen (translated from Danish to German by ).

Juditha triumphans

oratorio by Antonio Vivaldi

album by Paul McCartney

oratorio by the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt

Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

Oratorio by Arthur Honegger

Paradise and the Peri

oratorio by Robert Schumann

Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio

live album by Paul McCartney

L'enfance du Christ

oratorio composed by Hector Berlioz

A Child of Our Time

oratorio by Michael Tippett

Die Jakobsleiter

oratorio by Arnold Schoenberg

Song of the Forests

1949 oratorio by Dmitri Shostakovich

Brockes Passion

Libretto by Barthold Heinrich Brockes

thumb|Erik Satie, circa 1919

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Oratorio by Bohuslav Martinů

Szenen aus Goethes Faust

musical composistion by Robert Schumann

Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)

The Book with Seven Seals

oratorio by Franz Schmidt

Les Béatitudes

French oratorio by César Franck; text in poetic meditation on the eight beatitudes of Jesus, from the Gospel of Matthew, by Joséphine-Blanche Bouchet Colomb.

Story about the bombing at Nagasaki during World War 2

Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis

opera by Jan Dismas Zelenka

oratorio by Franz Schubert

La passione di Gesù Cristo

libretto by Pietro Metastasio

Symphony No. 10

composition by Heitor Villa-Lobos