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Saul

Handel's 1739 English oratorio dramatizing Israel's first king, notable for its psychological depth and the use of a car...

Baroque English Sacred Biblical

8.8 Great

2

Israel in Egypt

Handel's 1739 English oratorio notable for its unusually large proportion of double choruses over solo arias, making it...

Baroque English Sacred Biblical

8.7 Great

3

Solomon

Handel's 1749 English oratorio depicting Solomon's reign, best known for the orchestral sinfonia commonly called the Arr...

Baroque English Sacred Biblical

8.5 Great

4

Jephtha

Handel's 1752 oratorio about the biblical judge Jephtha, his last major choral work, composed as his eyesight was failin...

Baroque English Sacred Biblical

8.3 Great

5

Samson

Handel's 1743 English oratorio adapted from Milton's Samson Agonistes by librettist Newburgh Hamilton, premiered at Cove...

Baroque English Sacred Biblical

8.1 Great

6

Juditha triumphans

Juditha triumphans (RV 644) is Vivaldi's only surviving oratorio, composed in 1716 for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venic...

Baroque Italian Sacred Biblical

8.0 Great

7

Belshazzar

Handel's 1745 English oratorio depicting the fall of Belshazzar and Babylon, set to a libretto by Charles Jennens drawn...

Baroque English Sacred Biblical

7.8 Good

8

San Giovanni Battista

San Giovanni Battista is Alessandro Stradella's 1675 oratorio on the life of John the Baptist, noted for its dramatic ar...

Baroque Italian Sacred Biblical

7.8 Good

9

Judas Maccabaeus

Handel's 1746 English oratorio celebrating the Maccabean revolt, one of the most frequently performed of his oratorios d...

Baroque English Sacred Biblical

7.6 Good

10

Athalia

Handel's 1733 English oratorio based on Racine's Athalie, depicting the biblical queen Athaliah of Judah, and premiered...

Baroque English Sacred Biblical

7.3 Good

11

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...

Baroque Italian Sacred Handel

7.2 Good

12

Baltazar

Baltazar is a Latin oratorio by Giacomo Carissimi dramatizing the biblical feast of Belshazzar, notable for its vivid th...

Baroque Italian Sacred Biblical

7.0 Good

13

Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (Caldara)

Antonio Caldara's oratorio depicting Mary Magdalene at the feet of Christ, a widely performed Baroque sacred work set in...

Baroque Italian Sacred Biblical

7.0 Good

14

Abraham et Isaac (Carissimi)

Abraham et Isaac is a Latin oratorio by Giacomo Carissimi on the near-sacrifice of Isaac, notable for its expressive use...

Baroque Italian Sacred Biblical

6.8 Fair

15

Judicium Salomonis

Judicium Salomonis is a Latin oratorio by Giacomo Carissimi retelling the Judgment of Solomon, notable for its dramatic...

Baroque Italian Sacred Biblical

6.8 Fair

16

Historia di Ezechia (Carissimi)

Historia di Ezechia is a Latin oratorio by Giacomo Carissimi dramatizing King Hezekiah's illness and miraculous recovery...

Baroque Italian Sacred Biblical

6.5 Fair

17

Isacco figura del Redentore (Jommelli)

Niccolò Jommelli's oratorio casting Isaac as a typological prefiguration of Christ, reflecting a common theme in 18th-ce...

Baroque Italian Sacred Biblical

6.5 Fair

18

Vanitas vanitatum (Carissimi)

Latin oratorio by Giacomo Carissimi, the 17th-century Italian composer widely regarded as a founding figure of the orato...

Baroque Italian Philosophical Sacred

6.5 Fair

19

Dives Malus (Carissimi)

Dives Malus is a Latin oratorio by Giacomo Carissimi based on the New Testament parable of the rich man and Lazarus, not...

Baroque Italian Sacred Parable

6.3 Fair

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Gedeone (Porpora)

Nicola Porpora's oratorio based on the Old Testament judge Gideon, one of the Neapolitan Baroque composer's sacred works...

Baroque Italian Sacred Biblical

6.3 Fair