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The Golden Legend
The Golden Legend is a dramatic cantata by English composer Arthur Sullivan, first performed at the Leeds Festival in 1886. Its text, prepared by Joseph Bennett, adapts Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem The Golden Legend, which combines a medieval Christian story with themes of illness, co...
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The top alternative to The Golden Legend in 2026 is The Dream of Gerontius with a score of 9.4/10, followed by The Apostles (8.0) and The Apostles (Elgar) (8.0).
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...
The Apostles
The Apostles is an oratorio for soloists, chorus, and orchestra by Edward Elgar, cataloged as Op. 49. It premiered at th...
The Apostles (Elgar)
The Apostles is an oratorio for soloists, chorus, and orchestra by Edward Elgar, cataloged as Op. 49. It premiered at th...
The Music Makers
The Music Makers (Op. 69) is a 1912 work by English composer Edward Elgar, setting Arthur O'Shaughnessy's ode "We are th...
Job (Parry)
Job is an English oratorio by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, completed for the 1892 Three Choirs Festival. It sets episo...
The Light of Life (Lux Christi)
The Light of Life, or Lux Christi, is an oratorio by Edward Elgar, published as Op. 29 and first performed in 1896. Its...
King Saul (Parry)
King Saul is a large-scale oratorio completed by the English composer Hubert Parry in 1894. It dramatizes the biblical s...
The Crucifixion
The Crucifixion is a Passion meditation by John Stainer, first performed in 1887. Written for solo voices, chorus, and o...
Judith (Parry)
Judith is a biblical oratorio by Hubert Parry, composed for the Birmingham Festival in 1888. Its subject is Judith, the...
The Prodigal Son (Sullivan)
The Prodigal Son is a biblical oratorio by English composer Arthur Sullivan. Composed in 1869 for the Worcester Festival...
The Martyr of Antioch
The Martyr of Antioch is a dramatic oratorio by Arthur Sullivan, composed for the Leeds Festival in 1880. Its text adapt...
Eli
Eli is an English oratorio by Michael Costa, first performed in 1855. It adapts a biblical story concerning Eli, the hig...
The Light of the World (Sullivan)
The Light of the World is a sacred oratorio by the English composer Arthur Sullivan. Written for the Birmingham Festival...
Naaman
William Sterndale Bennett composed the oratorio Naaman in 1864, making it a staple of English choral societies during th...
David (Macfarren)
George Alexander Macfarren's David is a late 19th-century English oratorio completed in 1883, notable for its ambitious...
Jerusalem (Pierson)
Henry Hugo Pierson's oratorio Jerusalem (1852), a large-scale sacred work by the British-born composer who settled in Ge...
Ruth (Cowen)
Biblical oratorio by British composer Frederic Cowen, based on the Old Testament Book of Ruth and composed as part of hi...
St. Peter (Benedict)
St. Peter is an English oratorio by the German-born composer Julius Benedict, completed and performed in 1870. The work...
The Veil (Cowen)
The Veil is an oratorio by the English composer Frederic Cowen, written for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. It belon...
Joseph (Macfarren)
Joseph is a biblical oratorio by the English composer George Alexander Macfarren, written for the Leeds Musical Festival...
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