Yes, I know it's from an Easter oratorio. Yes, you'd expect me to post an historically informed version. But no! Here's a 1938 aircheck of the "Hallelujah" Chorus from Handel's Messiah (in what sounds to me to be Mozart's arrangement) performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Tonkunstkoor conducted by Willem Mengelberg, with a little bit of audio restoration from a so-so source by yours truly.
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