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Hodie
Ralph Vaughan Williams's Christmas cantata (1954) for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, setting a broad range of Christmas texts and among his last major choral works.
apps Top Hodie Alternatives
The top alternative to Hodie in 2026 is The Dream of Gerontius with a score of 9.4/10, followed by Belshazzar's Feast (9.3) and Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (9.0).
The Dream of Gerontius
Elgar’s *The Dream of Gerontius* is a sacred oratorio based on Cardinal Newman’s poem. Composed in 1900, it depicts the...
Belshazzar's Feast
Walton’s *Belshazzar’s Feast* is a 20th-century oratorio based on the Book of Daniel. The work depicts the final, opulen...
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...
L'Enfance du Christ
Hector Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ) is a 1854 oratorio exploring the biblical story of the Ho...
Saul
Handel's 1739 English oratorio dramatizing Israel's first king, notable for its psychological depth and the use of a car...
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...
El Niño
John Adams's oratorio (2000) retelling the Nativity through multilingual texts from scripture and medieval sources, co-c...
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...
The Apostles
The Apostles (Op. 49) is Elgar's 1903 oratorio, the first part of a planned trilogy on Christ and the early church, depi...
Sancta Civitas
Ralph Vaughan Williams's oratorio (1925) for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, drawing on the Book of Revelation and admi...
The Apostles (Elgar)
Oratorio by Edward Elgar (op. 49), premiered at the 1903 Birmingham Festival, depicting the calling of the apostles and...
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...
Hymnus Paradisi
English choral requiem by Herbert Howells, composed in 1938 after his son's death and first performed publicly at the 19...
Dona Nobis Pacem (Vaughan Williams)
Cantata by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1936) for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, combining Walt Whitman texts as an explici...
Judas Maccabaeus
Handel's 1746 English oratorio celebrating the Maccabean revolt, one of the most frequently performed of his oratorios d...
Saint Nicolas
Benjamin Britten composed the 1948 choral work Saint Nicolas to celebrate the centenary of Lancing College, depicting th...
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