Naked except for a strategically placed lute, Venus accompanies Eros in Jan Brueghel the Elder's The Sense of Hearing (1618), a curious allegory filled with song birds but showing no evidence of humans, apart from their abandoned instruments and part-books – Peter Philips's Italian madrigals from 1603. Philips, an English recusant, settled in Brussels and knew Brueghel and Rubens well, his music celebrated in artistic circles as an engine of the Counter-Reformation. These delightfully rich eight-part motets from 1613 are sung here to mark their 400th anniversary, with stately cornetts and sackbuts enhancing the majesty. Rupert Gough and his fresh young voices make a convincing case for these unjustly neglected works.