"Hallelujah" from Händel's Messiah, Helmut Rilling

Eines der schönsten Lieder überhaupt.

The German Language is said to be the organ among the European languages -JeanPaul-

Not bad, not bad..

I don't believe this is Mozart's revised version of the Messiah. As far as I know, Georg Handel left the the lyrics in German himself; German is his mother tongue. And I personally prefer this German version over the English one.

But ain't the original version with the Charles Jennens libretto, in English, as it was based on the KingJames Bible etc.?

Handel wrote the Messiah in English. He was living in England at the time and had, I believe, attained British citizenship. The Mozart/Sweiten version was translated by Sweiten and Mozart filled out the accompaniment - he reduced the use of continuo and replaced the tromba parts. Since they are singing in English, I would guess that they are following one of the 'original' transcriptions - Novello or Prout - I know that Prout made no effort to include any of the Mozart in his version.

@tombaker1222

Do you have to change the music when switching between languages?

Notation may need to be changed to allow pronunciation - as an example (you'll never see it in music but..) "Hello" is 2 syllables, but in German "Guten Tag" or Italian "Bongiorno" - both are 3 syllables. So very slight changes in the music may be needed to facilitate that. They wouldn't be that noticable without comparing the two scores however.

this is fantastic!
yes Hallelluia! and praise the name of Jesus!