List of oratorios
This is a chronological list of oratorios from the 16th century to the present. Unless otherwise indicated, all dates are those when the work was first performed. In some cases only the date of composition is known. In others, the oratorio has only been heard on a recording.
There is considerable overlap between the oratorio and the cantata, especially during the 19th century. The works listed below are those that have most often been referred to as oratorios.
16th century
17th century
- Pietro della Valle – Oratorio della Purificatione
- Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué – De tranen Petri ende Pauli
- Giacomo Carissimi
- *Jephte
- *Baltazar
- *Diluvium universale
- *Dives malus
- *Ezechias
- *Jonas
- *Abramo e Isacco
- *Job
- *Judicium extremum
- *Judicium Salomonis
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- *Judith sive liberata H.391
- *Canticum pro pace H.392
- *Canticum in nativitatem Domini H.393
- *In honorem Caecilliae, Valeriani et Tiburij canticum H.394
- *Pour la fête de l'Epiphanie H.395
- *Historia Esther H.396
- *Cacillia virgo et martyr Octobre vocibus H.397
- *Pestis Mediolanensis H.398
- *Prélude pour Horrenda pastis H.398 a
- *Filius prodigus H.399
- *Prélude pour l'enfant prodigue H.399 a
- *L'enfant prodigue H/399 b
- *L'enfant prodigue H.399 c
- *Canticum in honorem Beatae Virginis Mariae... H.400
- *Extremum Dei judicium H.401
- *Sacrificium Abrahae H.402
- *Symphonies ajustées au sacrifice d'Abraham H.402 a
- *Le sacrifice d'Abraham H.402 b
- *Mors Saülis et Jonathae H.403
- *Josue prélude H.404 a
- *Josue H.404
- *In resurrectione Domini Nostri Jesu Christi H.405
- *In circumcisione Domini / Dialogus inter angelum et pastores H.406
- *Dialogus inter esurientem, sitientem et Christum H.407
- *Elévation H.408
- *In obitum augustissimae nec non piissime Gallorum regina lamentum H.409
- *Praelium Michaelis Archangeli factum in cocho cum dracone H.410
- *Caedes sanctorum innocentium H.411
- *Nuptiae sacrae H.412
- *Caecilia virgo et martyr H.413
- *In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi canticum H.414
- *Caecilia virgo et martyr H.415
- *Prologue de la Ste Cécile après l'ouverture : Harmonia coelistis H.415 a
- *In nativitatem Domini canticum H.416
- *Dialogus inter Christum et homines H.417
- *In honorem Sancti Ludovici regis Galliae H.418
- *Pour Saint Augustin mourant H.419
- *Dialogus inter angelos et pastores Judae in nativitatem Domini H.420
- *In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi canticum H.421
- *Judicium Salomonis H.422 & H.422 a
- *Dialogus inter Magdalena et Jesu 2 vocibus Canto e Alto cum organo H.423
- *Le reniement de St Pierre H.424
- *Dialogus inter Christum et peccatores H.425 & H.425 a date unknown)
- Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – L'histoire de la femme adultère C.191
- Sébastien de Brossard – Dialogus poenitentis animae cum Deo SdB.55
18th century
- Antonio Maria Bononcini – Il trionfo della grazia
- George Frideric Handel – Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
- George Frideric Handel – La resurrezione
- Francesco Maria Veracini – Il trionfo della innocenza da S Niccolò
- Sébastien de Brossard – Oratorio sopra l'immaculata conceptione della B Virgine SdB.56
- George Frideric Handel – Brockes Passion
- Francesco Maria Veracini – Mosè al mar rosso, ovvero Il naufragio di Faraone
- Antonio Vivaldi – Juditha triumphans
- Francesco Maria Veracini – L'incoronazione di Davidde
- Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel – Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld, Passion Oratorio
- Francesco Maria Veracini – La caduta del savio nell'idoltria di Salomone
- Jan Dismas Zelenka – Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis
- Johann Sebastian Bach – St John Passion
- Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – David
- Johann David Heinichen – L'aride tempie ignude, passion oratorio
- Francesco Maria Veracini – L'empietà distrutta nella caduta di Gerico
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Easter Oratorio
- Johann Sebastian Bach – St Matthew Passion
- Johann David Heinichen – Come? S'imbruna il cieli Occhi piangete, passion oratorio
- Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel – Christmas Oratorio
- Jan Dismas Zelenka – Il Serpente di Bronzo
- Willem de Fesch – Judith
- Maurice Greene – The Song of Deborah and Barak
- George Frideric Handel – Esther
- George Frideric Handel – Athalia
- George Frideric Handel – Deborah
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Christmas Oratorio
- Johann Adolph Hasse – Il cantico de' tre fanciulli
- Nicola Porpora – Davide e Bersabea
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Ascension Oratorio
- Johann Georg Reutter – Gioas re di Giuda
- William Boyce – David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan
- George Frideric Handel – Alexander's Feast
- Jan Dismas Zelenka – I penitenti al sepolcro del redentore
- Maurice Greene – Jephtha
- George Frideric Handel – Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità
- Johann Adolph Hasse – Le virtù appiè della croce
- Nicola Porpora – Il Gedeone
- George Frideric Handel – Israel in Egypt
- George Frideric Handel – Saul
- Giuseppe Bonno – Eleazaro
- Gregor Joseph Werner – Der Gute Hirt
- Giuseppe Bonno – San Paolo in Athene
- George Frideric Handel – L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
- Johann Adolph Hasse – Serpentes ignei in deserto
- John Christopher Smith – David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan
- George Frideric Handel – Messiah
- George Frideric Handel – Samson
- Johann Adolph Hasse – Giuseppe riconosciuto
- Johann Adolph Hasse – I pellegrini al sepolcro di Nostro Signore
- George Frideric Handel – Joseph and his Brethren
- George Frideric Handel – Semele
- Thomas Arne – The Death of Abel
- Thomas Arne – Judith
- Maurice Greene – The Force of Truth
- George Frideric Handel – Hercules
- Johann Adolph Hasse – Ci'l un parantê und parsol scelopgrini
- Francesco Maria Veracini – L'errore di Salomone
- Thomas Arne – Alfred
- George Frideric Handel – Belshazzar
- Johann Adolph Hasse – La Caduta di Gerico
- Willem de Fesch – Joseph
- George Frideric Handel – Judas Maccabaeus
- George Frideric Handel – Occasional Oratorio
- George Frideric Handel – Joshua
- Johann Adolph Hasse – Santa Elena al Calvario
- George Frideric Handel – Alexander Balus
- George Frideric Handel – Solomon
- George Frideric Handel – Susanna
- Nicola Porpora – Il Verbo in carne
- Franz Xaver Richter – La Deposizione della Croce
- George Frideric Handel – Theodora
- George Frideric Handel – The Choice of Hercules
- William Hayes – The Fall of Jericho
- William Hayes – The Passions. An Ode for Music
- Jean-Joseph de Mondonville – Coeli enarrant gloria
- Johann Adolph Hasse – La conversione di Sant' Agostino
- George Frideric Handel – Jephtha
- Carl Heinrich Graun – Der Tod Jesu
- George Frideric Handel – The Triumph of Time and Truth
- John Stanley – Jephthah
- Johann Adolph Hasse – S. Petrus et S. Maria Magdalena
- Giuseppe Bonno – Isacco figura del redentore
- John Christopher Smith – Paradise Lost
- John Stanley – Zimiri
- Gregor Joseph Werner – Deborah
- Thomas Arne – Judith
- John Christopher Smith – Rebecca
- John Stanley – Arcadia
- Georg Philipp Telemann – Der Tag des Gerichts
- Johann Georg Albrechtsberger – La passione di Gesù Cristo
- George Frideric Handel – Nabal
- John Christopher Smith – Tobit
- John Worgan and Christopher Smart – Hannah
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Isacco figura del Redentore
- John Worgan – Manasseh, performed at the Lock Hospital
- Tommaso Traetta – Rex Salomon
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots
- Francesco Maria Veracini – L'Assalone, ovvero L'infedelta punita
- Samuel Arnold – Cure of Saul
- Samuel Arnold – Abimelech
- Michael Haydn – Der Kampf der Busse und Bekehrung
- Michael Haydn – Kaiser Constanstin I. Feldzug und Sieg
- George Frideric Handel – Gideon
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Die Israeliten in der Wüste
- Franz Joseph Aumann – Oratorium De Passione Domini Nostri Jesu Christi
- Johann Christian Bach – Gioas, re di Giuda
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Davide penitente
- Michael Haydn – Der reumütige Petrus
- Michael Haydn – Der büssende Sünder
- Josef Mysliveček – Adamo ed Eva
- Florian Leopold Gassmann – La Betulia Liberata
- Samuel Arnold – The Prodigal Son
- Luffman Atterbury – Goliah
- Charles Avison – Ruth
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach – Die Auferweckung des Lazarus
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – La Liberatrice del Popolo Giudaico nella Persia, o sia l'Esther
- Samuel Arnold – Omnipotence
- Giuseppe Bonno – Il Giuseppe riconosciuto
- John Stanley – The Fall of Egypt
- Joseph Haydn – Il ritorno di Tobia
- James Hook – The Ascension,
- Antonio Salieri – La passione di Gesù Cristo
- Joseph Martin Kraus – Der Tod Jesu
- John Abraham Fisher – Providence
- William Hayes – David
- Thomas Linley the younger – The Song of Moses
- Robert Wainwright – The Fall of Egypt
- Marianna Martines – Sant'Elena al Calvario
- Marianna Martines – Isacco figura del redentore
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Davide penitente
- Antonio Rosetti – Der sterbende Jesu
- Anton Teyber – Gioas re di Giuda
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Giobbe
- Antonio Rosetti – Jesus in Gethsemane
- Joseph Eybler – Die Hirten bei der krippe zu Bethlehem
- Antonio Casimir Cartellieri – Gioas re di Giuda
- Joseph Haydn – The Seven Last Words of Christ
- Joseph Haydn – ''The Creation''
19th century
- Joseph Haydn – The Seasons
- Christian Ernst Graf – Der Tod Jesu
- Friedrich Witt – Der leidende Heiland
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Christ on the Mount of Olives
- Ferdinando Paer – Il Santo Sepolcro
- Antonio Casimir Cartellieri – La celebre Nativita del Redentore
- Antonio Casimir Cartellieri – La purificatione di Maria Virgine
- Ferdinando Paer – La Passione di Gesu Cristo
- Joseph Eybler – Die vier letzten Dinge
- Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gott und die Natur
- William Crotch – Palestine
- Maximilian Stadler Die Befreyung von Jerusalem
- George Perry – Elijah and the Priests of Baal
- Friedrich Schneider – Das Weltgericht
- Franz Schubert – Lazarus
- Simon Mayr – Gioas
- Friedrich Schneider – Verlorne Paradies
- Louis Spohr – Die letzten Dinge
- Bernhard Klein – Jephtha
- Friedrich Schneider – Pharao
- Peter Josef von Lindpaintner – Der Jüngling von Nain
- Friedrich Schneider – Christus das Kind
- Friedrich Schneider – Gideon
- Philip Trajetta – Jerusalem in Affliction
- Philip Trajetta – Daughter of Zion
- Bernhard Klein – David
- Sigismund von Neukomm – Mount Sinai
- Mary Linwood – David’s First Victory
- Henry Bishop – The Seventh Day
- William Crotch – The Captivity of Judah
- Sigismund von Neukomm – David
- Louis Spohr – Des Heilands letzte Stunden
- Felix Mendelssohn – St. Paul
- Friedrich Schneider – Getsemane und Golgotha
- Henry Bishop – The Fallen Angel
- Ferdinand Hiller – Die Zerstörung Jerusalems
- Louis Spohr – Der Fall Babylons
- Robert Schumann – Das Paradies und die Peri
- William Jackson – The Deliverance of Israel from Babylon,
- Hector Berlioz – La damnation de Faust
- Félicien David – Moïse au Sinaï
- César Franck – Ruth
- Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah
- George Perry – Hezekiah
- Felix Mendelssohn – Christus
- Pietro Raimondi – Giuseppe (Triplo Oratorio)
- Félicien David – Eden
- Charles Edward Horsley – David, Op.30
- William Richard Bexfield – Israel Restored
- William Jackson – Isaiah
- Robert Schumann – Der Rose Pilgerfahrt
- Henry Hugh Pierson – Jerusalem,
- Charles Edward Horsley – Joseph, Op.39
- Robert Schumann – Scenes from Goethe's Faust
- Hector Berlioz – L'enfance du Christ
- Charles Gounod – Tobie
- John Griesbach – Daniel
- Henry Leslie – Immanuel
- Frederick Ouseley – The Martyrdom of St Polycarp
- Ann Mounsey Bartholomew – The Nativity, Op. 29, pastoral oratorio
- Michael Costa – Eli
- Charles Gounod – Les Sept Paroles de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ sur la Croix
- George William Torrance – Abraham
- Henry Leslie – Judith 1858)
- Camille Saint-Saëns – Oratorio de Noël
- Anton Rubinstein – Paradise Lost
- Henry Hiles – David
- Charles Edward Horsley – Gideon
- Bernhard Molique – Abraham, op. 65
- Alfred Gaul – Hezekiah
- Charles Sandys Packer – Crown of Thorns
- Michael Costa – Naaman
- George William Torrance – The Captivity
- Cesar Franck – La Tour de Babel
- Franz Liszt – Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth
- John Stainer – Gideon
- Peter Benoit – Lucifer
- Henry Hiles – The Patriarchs
- Théodore Dubois – Les Sept Paroles du Christ
- William Sterndale Bennett – The Woman of Samaria
- Peter Benoit – De Schelde
- Henry Litolff – Ruth et Boaz
- Arthur Sullivan – The Prodigal Son
- Otto Goldschmidt – Ruth
- Anton Rubinstein – The Tower of Babel
- Julius Benedict – St Peter
- Edmund Chipp – Naomi: A Sacred Idyll
- William Cusins – Gideon
- William Carter – Placida, the Christian Martyr
- John Knowles Paine – St Peter
- John Francis Barnett – The Raising of Lazarus
- Peter Benoit – De oorlog
- Franz Liszt – Christus
- George Alexander Macfarren – St John the Baptist
- Jules Massenet – Marie-Magdeleine
- Frederick Ouseley – Hagar
- Edouard Silas – Joash
- Henry Smart – Jacob
- Arthur Sullivan – The Light of the World
- Max Bruch – Odysseus
- Frederick Bridge – Mount Moriah
- César Franck – Rédemption
- Edmund Chipp – Job
- Jules Massenet – Ève
- Charles Swinnerton Heap – The Captivity
- Charles Villiers Stanford – The Resurrection
- Henry Gadsby – Alcestis
- George Alexander Macfarren – The Resurrection
- Camille Saint-Saëns – Le Déluge
- Max Bruch – Arminius
- John Liptrot Hatton – Hezekiah
- George Alexander Macfarren – Joseph
- Philip Armes – Hezekiah
- Frederic Hymen Cowen – The Deluge,
- Théodore Dubois – Le Paradis Perdu,
- John Stainer – The Daughter of Jairus
- César Franck – Les Béatitudes
- Benjamin Godard – Diane, Op.52
- Arthur Sullivan – The Martyr of Antioch
- Jules Massenet – La Vierge
- Philip Armes – St. John the Evangelist
- Alfred Gaul – The Holy City
- Charles Gounod – La rédemption
- Joachim Raff – Welt-Ende – Gericht – Neue Welt, op. 212
- George William Torrance – The Revelation
- Joseph Barnby – Rebekah
- George Alexander Macfarren – King David
- John Stainer – Mary Magdalen
- Alexander Mackenzie – The Rose of Sharon
- Charles Gounod – Mors et vita
- Dudley Buck – The Light of Asia
- Antonín Dvořák – Saint Ludmila
- W. S. Rockstro – The Good Shepherd
- Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard – La Vision de Saül
- Charles Villiers Stanford – The Three Holy Children
- Charles Vincent – Ruth
- Giovanni Bottesini – The Garden of Olivet
- Frederic Hymen Cowen – Ruth
- Luigi Mancinelli – Isaias
- John Stainer – The Crucifixion
- Hubert Parry – Judith
- William Spark – Immanuel
- Frederick Bridge – The Repentance of Nineveh
- Edgar Tinel – St Francis
- Philip Armes – St Barnabas
- Charles Gounod – Saint Francois d'Assise
- Emma Mundella – The Victory of Song
- Charles Villiers Stanford – Eden
- Paul Gilson – Francesca da Rimini
- Alexander Mackenzie – Bethlehem
- Hubert Parry – Job
- Horatio Parker – Hora Novissima
- Heinrich von Herzogenberg – Die Geburt Christi, op. 90
- Hubert Parry – King Saul
- Max Bruch – Moses
- Edward Elgar – The Light of Life
- Willard Patton – Isaiah
- Lorenzo Perosi – La Passione di Cristo
- Henry Walford Davies – Days of Man
- Lorenzo Perosi – La Trasfigurazione di Cristo
- Lorenzo Perosi – La Risurrezione di Lazzaro
- Lorenzo Perosi – La Risurrezione di Cristo
- Lorenzo Perosi – Il Natale del Redentore
- Felix Draeseke – Christus. Mysterium in a Prelude and Three Oratorios
- Frederic Hymen Cowen – Jephthah
- Horatio-Parker – A Wanderer's Psalm
- Lorenzo Perosi – L'entrata di Cristo in Gerusalemme
- Lorenzo Perosi – La Strage degli Innocenti
- Lorenzo Perosi – Mosè
- Jules Massenet – La Terre Promise
- Edward Elgar – ''The Dream of Gerontius''
20th century
- Horatio Parker – Legend of St Christopher
- Henry Walford Davies – The Temple,
- Edward Elgar – The Apostles
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – The Atonement
- Lorenzo Perosi – Stabat Mater
- Lorenzo Perosi – Il Giudizio Universale
- Lorenzo Perosi – Dies Iste
- Henry Walford Davies – Everyman
- Edward Elgar – The Kingdom
- David Evans – Llawenhewch yn yr Iôr
- Lorenzo Perosi – Transitus Animae
- Granville Bantock – Christ in the Wilderness
- Gabriel Pierné – Les enfants à Bethléem
- Granville Bantock – Omar Khayyám
- Alick Maclean – The Annunciation, performed Scarborough, 1920
- Lorenzo Perosi – In Patris Memoriam
- Granville Bantock – Gethsemane
- Lorenzo Perosi – Vespertina Oratio
- Carlo Diacono – St Paul
- Lorenzo Perosi – Le Sette Parole di Nostro Signore Gesu' Cristo sulla Croce
- Lorenzo Perosi – La Samaritana
- Camille Saint-Saëns – The Promised Land
- Arthur Somervell – The Passion of Christ
- Granville Bantock – Song of Songs
- George Enescu – Strigoii
- Lorenzo Perosi – In Diebus Tribolationis
- Edgar Stillman Kelley – The Pilgrim's Progress
- Erik Satie – Socrate
- Arthur Honegger – Le roi David
- Arnold Schoenberg – Die Jakobsleiter
- Zoltan Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus
- Hermann Suter – Le Laudi
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – Sancta Civitas
- Lucien Haudebert – Dieu vainqueur
- Igor Stravinsky – Oedipus rex
- Lorenzo Perosi – Il Sogno Interpretato
- Robin Milford – A Prophet in the Land
- Johanna Müller-Hermann – Lied der Erinnerung: In Memoriam
- Lorenzo Perosi – In Fratris Memoriam
- George Dyson – The Canterbury Pilgrims
- Paul Hindemith – Das Unaufhörliche
- Paul Ben-Haim – Joram
- Arthur Honegger – Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
- William Alwyn – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- Lennox Berkeley – Jonah 1936, Leeds Festival
- Robert Nathaniel Dett – The Ordering of Moses
- Lorenzo Perosi – In Transitu Sancti Patris Nostri Francisci
- Lorenzo Perosi – Natalitia
- Herbert Howells – Hymnus Paradisi
- Franz Schmidt – The Book with Seven Seals
- Jean Françaix – L’Apocalypse selon Saint-Jean – Oratorio fantastique
- Ahmed Adnan Saygun – Yunus Emre
- Frank Martin – Le Vin herbé
- Martin Shaw – The Redeemer
- Michael Tippett – A Child of Our Time
- William Wordsworth – Dies Domini
- Frank Martin – In terra pax
- Francis de Bourguignon – La Nuit
- Paul Hindemith – When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
- William Lloyd Webber – St. Francis of Assisi
- Frank Martin – Golgotha
- Dmitri Shostakovich – Song of the Forests
- Ernst Hermann Meyer – Mansfeld Oratorio
- Lorenzo Perosi – Il Nazareno
- Sergei Prokofiev – On Guard for Peace
- Arwel Hughes – Dewi Sant, commissioned for the Festival of Britain
- Heitor Villa-Lobos – Symphony No. 10, Sumé pater patrium: Sinfonia ameríndia com coros (Oratorio)
- Léo Ferré – La Chanson du mal-aimé
- Hans Vogt – Die Stadt hinter dem Strom
- Vadim Salmanov – The Twelve
- Bohuslav Martinů – The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Alfred Schnittke – Nagasaki
- Frank Martin – Le Mystère de la Nativité
- Daniel Jones – St Peter
- Raymond Warren – The Passion
- Mordecai Seter – Midnight Vigil
- Arwel Hughes – Pantycelyn, National Eisteddfod, Swansea
- Herman D. Koppel – Moses
- Federico Mompou – Los Improperios
- Ron Nelson – What is Man?
- Mikis Theodorakis- Axion Esti
- Herman D. Koppel – Requiem
- Krzysztof Penderecki – St Luke Passion
- Dave Brubeck – The Light in the Wilderness
- Hans Werner Henze – Das Floß der Medusa
- Raymond Warren – Songs of Unity
- Mikis Theodorakis – The March of the Spirit
- James Furman – I Have a Dream
- John Golland – The Word Made Flesh,, op. 24
- George Newson – Arena, a 'staged oratorio',
- Dmitry Kabalevsky – A Letter to the 30th Century, Op. 93,
- Darius Milhaud – Saint-Louis, roi de France
- Herman D. Koppel – Lovsange
- Patric Standford – Christus Requiem
- Mikis Theodorakis – Canto General
- Michael Hurd – Hip Hip Horatio
- Joseph Horovitz – Samson, for baritone, mixed chorus and brass band
- Inglis Gundry – The Daytime of Christ
- Anthony Hedges – The Temple of Solomon, Op. 78
- Howard Blake – Benedictus (Song of Zechariah)
- Undine Smith Moore – Scenes from the Life of a Martyr
- Charles Wuorinen – The Celestial Sphere
- Olle Elgenmark – Ordet vart kött
- Roger Marsh – Samson, a dramatic oratorio
- Charles Camilleri – Pawlu ta' Malta
- Mauricio Kagel – Sankt-Bach-Passion
- Peter Schickele – Oedipus Tex
- Ronald Senator – Holocaust Requiem
- Somei Satoh – Stabat Mater
- Colin Touchin – Hilarion
- Raymond Warren – Continuing Cities
- Naji Hakim – Saul de Tarse
- Paul McCartney – Liverpool Oratorio
- Richard Shephard – There Was Such Beauty
- Mikis Theodorakis- Canto Olympico
- René Clemencic – Kabbala
- Michael Garrick – Bovingdon Poppies for chorus, soloists, jazz sextet and strings
- Geoffrey Poole – Blackbird
- Mona Lyn Reese – Choose Life, Uvacharta Bachayim
- Richard Einhorn – Voices of Light
- Kay Gardner – Ouroboros: Seasons of Life
- Bob Farrell and Greg Nelson – Saviour
- Elliot Goldenthal – Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio
- Samuel Jones – The Temptation of Jesus
- Will Todd – Saint Cuthbert
- Michael McLean – The Garden
- Antonio Braga – San Domenico di Guzman
- Matthew King – Gethsemane
- Francis Pott – A Song on the End of World
- Raymond Warren – St. John Passion , passion setting with spirituals
- John Adams – El Niño
- Steve Elcock – Spei Cantus, op.9
- Osvaldo Golijov – 'La Pasión según San Marcos
- Paul Spicer – ''Easter Oratorio''
21st century
- Jacob ter Veldhuis – Paradiso Oratorio
- Anthony Davis – Restless Mourning, commemorating the 9/11 attacks
- Nathan Currier – Gaian Variations
- Piotr Rubik – Oratorium Świętokrzyska Golgota
- Fredrik Sixten – A Swedish St Mark Passion
- Nicholas Simpson – Recreation
- Sally Lutyens – First Light: An Oratorio
- Ilaiyaraaja – Thiruvasakam
- Piotr Rubik – Tu Es Petrus
- Julian Anderson – Heaven is Shy of Earth
- Howard Blake – The Passion of Mary
- Paul McCartney – Ecce Cor Meum
- Francis Pott – The Cloud of Unknowing
- Piotr Rubik – Oratorium Psałterz Wrześniowy
- Kaija Saariaho – La Passion de Simone
- Eric Idle and John Du Prez – Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
- Ted Hearne – Katrina Ballads
- Fredrik Sixten – Requiem
- Paul Moravec – The Blizzard Voices
- Antony Pitts – Jerusalem-Yerushalayim
- Steven Stucky and Gene Scheer – 4 August 1964
- Jonathan Dove – There was a child
- Richard Einhorn – The Origin
- Fredrik Sixten – A Swedish Christmas Oratorio
- Paul Spicer – Advent Oratorio
- Donald Reid Womack – Voices of Kalaupapa
- Kitty Brazelton – Ecclesiastes: A Modern Oratorio
- Rob Gardner – Lamb of God
- Dinesh Subasinghe – Karuna Nadee
- Jonathan Harvey, Hans Küng – Weltethos;
- John Adams – The Gospel According to the Other Mary
- Colin Touchin – Choose the Light
- Philip Wilby – The Holy Face
- Neil Hannon – To our Fathers' in Distress
- Ted Hearne – The Source
- Julia Wolfe – Anthracite Fields
- Stacy Garrop – Terra Nostra
- Jóhann Jóhannsson – Drone Mass
- Nico Muhly – Sentences
- Mark Simpson – The Immortal
- Fredrik Sixten – St John Passion
- Jonathan Dove – A Brief History of Creation
- Craig Hella Johnson – Considering Matthew Shepard
- Peter Reulein and Helmut Schlegel – Laudato si'
- Anthony Ritchie – Gallipoli to the Somme
- Thomas Gabriel – Bruder Martin
- Jörg Widmann – Arche
- Artur Cieślak – Niepodległa
- Paul Moravec – Sanctuary Road
- Roxanna Panufnik – Faithful Journey, a Mass for Poland
- Philip Sawyers – Mayflower on the Sea of Time
- Julia Wolfe – Fire in my mouth
- Bob Chilcott – Christmas Oratorio
- Simon Franglen – The Birth of Skies and Earth
- James MacMillan – A Christmas Oratorio
- Caroline Shaw – The Listeners
- Wadada Leo Smith – Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs
- Malcolm Dedman – Nine-Pointed Star
- Karin Rehnqvist – Silent Earth
- Daniel Knaggs – Two Streams/Dwa Zdroje,
- Peter Reulein and Bernhard Kießig – Eins
- Dwight Bigler – Mosaic for Earth
- Fredrik Sixten – St Matthew Passion
- Luke Styles – Voices of Power
- Kate Whitley – Our Future In Your Hands
- Julia Wolfe – Her Story
- Stefan Klaverdal – Vid Porten,
- Sean Shepherd – On a Clear Day , oratorio for orchestra, cello & choirs
- Aaron Zigman – Émigré
- Fredrik Sixten – Stabat Mater
- Patrick Hawes – The Son of Man
- Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy C. Takach – Rose Ever Blooming
- Julia Wolfe – ''unearth''