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Passio (Pärt)
Arvo Pärt's setting of the Passion according to St. John (1982), composed in his tintinnabuli style for soloists, chorus, and chamber ensemble, spare and meditative.
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The top alternative to Passio (Pärt) in 2026 is The Dream of Gerontius with a score of 9.4/10, followed by Elijah (9.3) and Elijah (Mendelssohn) (9.3).
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...
Elijah
Mendelssohn’s *Elijah* is a German oratorio based on the biblical story of the prophet Elijah. Composed in 1846, it show...
Elijah (Mendelssohn)
Elijah is a German oratorio composed by Felix Mendelssohn. It tells the story of the prophet Elijah’s confrontation with...
St. Luke Passion
Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion is a 20th-century Polish oratorio commemorating the 700th anniversary of Münster...
Membra Jesu Nostri
Dieterich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri is a 1680 German Passion oratorio notable for its seven-part structure focusing...
Golgotha
Swiss composer Frank Martin wrote Golgotha in 1948, a passion oratorio noted for integrating the musical aesthetics of J...
El Niño
John Adams's oratorio (2000) retelling the Nativity through multilingual texts from scripture and medieval sources, co-c...
The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross
Haydn's work originally composed in 1787 as orchestral meditations for Cadiz Cathedral and later rearranged as a choral...
The Gospel According to the Other Mary
John Adams's oratorio (2012) retelling the Passion from the perspectives of Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany, with a l...
St. John Passion (MacMillan)
James MacMillan's St. John Passion (2008) for chorus and orchestra, a major work by the Scottish composer premiered at t...
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...
Water Passion after St. Matthew
Tan Dun's Passion oratorio (2000) commissioned for the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, blending Chinese musical tradi...
Brockes Passion
Handel's setting of Barthold Heinrich Brockes's German passion poem, composed around 1716, one of several contemporary s...
La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo (Jommelli)
Niccolò Jommelli's Passion oratorio, one of several sacred dramatic works by the Neapolitan composer who held prominent...
Christ on the Mount of Olives (Christus am Ölberge)
Christ on the Mount of Olives (Op. 85) is Beethoven's only oratorio, composed in 1803, depicting Christ's prayer and arr...
The Crucifixion
John Stainer composed this Passion oratorio in 1887, depicting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to create an enduringly p...
La deposizione dalla croce di Gesù Cristo (Fux)
Johann Joseph Fux's oratorio depicting the deposition of Christ from the cross, by the Austrian Baroque composer best kn...
La Passione di Nostro Signore (A. Scarlatti)
Alessandro Scarlatti's Passion oratorio, one of several sacred dramatic works by the influential Neapolitan Baroque comp...
Der blutige und sterbende Jesus (Keiser)
German Passion oratorio by Reinhard Keiser, a prolific Hamburg Baroque composer, setting the suffering and death of Chri...
La Passione di Gesù Cristo (Salieri)
Antonio Salieri composed La Passione di Gesù Cristo in 1776, an Italian oratorio that sets a text by Metastasio and show...
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