Dido and Aeneas - Act 1: "Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment" - Janet Baker/Monica Sinclair/English Chamber Orchestra

Composed by：Henry Purcell

Ah Belinda

I am pressed with torment

Ah Belinda

I am pressed with torment not to be confessed

Ah Belinda

I am pressed with torment

Ah Belinda

I am pressed with torment not to be confessed

Peace and I are strangers grown

Peace and I are strangers strangers grown

I languish till my grief is known

I languish till my grief is known

Yet would not

Yet would not

Would not have it guessed

Peace and I are strangers grown

Peace and I are strangers strangers grown

Grief increasing by concealing

Mine admits of no revealing

Then let me speak the Trojan guest

Into your tender thoughts has pressed

The greatest blessing Fate can give

Our Carthage to secure and Troy revive

The greatest blessing Fate can give

Our Carthage to secure and Troy revive

When monarchs unite how happy their state

They triumph at once o'er their foes and their fate

They triumph

They triumph at once o'er their foes and their fate