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Brockes Passion
Handel's setting of Barthold Heinrich Brockes's German passion poem, composed around 1716, one of several contemporary settings alongside those by Telemann and Keiser.
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The top alternative to Brockes Passion in 2026 is Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 with a score of 9.0/10, followed by Saul (8.8) and Membra Jesu Nostri (8.8).
Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 is a substantial musical work comprising six cantatas created in 1734. These piec...
Saul
Handel's 1739 English oratorio dramatizing Israel's first king, notable for its psychological depth and the use of a car...
Membra Jesu Nostri
Dieterich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri is a 1680 German Passion oratorio notable for its seven-part structure focusing...
Israel in Egypt
Handel's 1739 English oratorio notable for its unusually large proportion of double choruses over solo arias, making it...
Solomon
Handel's 1749 English oratorio depicting Solomon's reign, best known for the orchestral sinfonia commonly called the Arr...
Jephtha
Handel's 1752 oratorio about the biblical judge Jephtha, his last major choral work, composed as his eyesight was failin...
Theodora
Handel's 1750 oratorio about the early Christian martyr Theodora, reportedly his personal favorite, though it drew poor...
Samson
Handel's 1743 English oratorio adapted from Milton's Samson Agonistes by librettist Newburgh Hamilton, premiered at Cove...
Belshazzar
Handel's 1745 English oratorio depicting the fall of Belshazzar and Babylon, set to a libretto by Charles Jennens drawn...
Christmas History (Weihnachtshistorie)
Weihnachtshistorie (SWV 435) is Heinrich Schütz's 1664 Christmas oratorio narrating the Nativity with distinct concertat...
Judas Maccabaeus
Handel's 1746 English oratorio celebrating the Maccabean revolt, one of the most frequently performed of his oratorios d...
Easter Oratorio BWV 249
J.S. Bach's BWV 249, a 1725 Easter work reworked from an earlier secular cantata, dramatizing the disciples' discovery o...
Athalia
Handel's 1733 English oratorio based on Racine's Athalie, depicting the biblical queen Athaliah of Judah, and premiered...
Ascension Oratorio BWV 11
Bach's Ascension Oratorio BWV 11 (1735) is a liturgical work for Ascension Day that parodies movements from earlier cant...
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi is Heinrich Schütz's 1623 Easter oratorio, one of the earliest German works in th...
Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
Handel's earliest known oratorio, an Italian allegorical work composed in Rome in 1707, personifying Time, Truth, Beauty...
Der Tod Jesu
Der Tod Jesu is a passion cantata by Karl Heinrich Graun, premiered in Berlin in 1755, which became one of the most freq...
La Resurrezione
Handel's 1708 Italian oratorio depicting the Resurrection of Christ, composed in Rome for the Marchese Ruspoli and among...
Esther
Handel's earliest surviving English oratorio, originally composed around 1718 as Haman and Mordecai and revised for publ...
Der blutige und sterbende Jesus (Keiser)
German Passion oratorio by Reinhard Keiser, a prolific Hamburg Baroque composer, setting the suffering and death of Chri...
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