We know little about Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer Jheronimus Vinders other than that he briefly served as singing master at Ghent’s St Baaf Cathedral in the 1520s.

His best-known work is a lament for his famous compatriot, and possibly teacher, Josquin des Prez, who died in 1521. Now English early music label Inventa has released an important two-disc set bringing to light two masses and a secular song, together with settings by contemporary Low Countries composers that acted as models for Vinders’ works. 

The brainchild of Renaissance harp guru Andrew Lawrence-King, it features the excellent Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, under director David Skinner, singing in the resonant chapel of Tanzenberg Castle, Austria.

The main work is Missa Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen, based on a popular Renaissance love song, My darling’s brown eyes. To get an idea of how Vinders reworked Benedictus Appenzeller’s simple version of it – performed delightfully by two of the choir’s sopranos, Emily India Evans and Sophie Madden, accompanied by Lawrence-King’s psaltery – play the original duet and then...