[Thor Joachim Haga]

Thanks for the information, Mark!

I definitely understand the issue of cost. And very often, you do get the “sensation” of an orchestral performance even if it isn’t. In fact, when I asked Eirik Myhr (who also posts here) to write an original theme for the podcast series, my brief to him was to start off with something “in the vein of the opening from Michael Kamen’s ROBIN HOOD, then into Zimmer, then a coda with a kind of Williams or Elfmanesque quality”. To cover the many faces of film music, it’s intended as pure pastiche. I think he delivered in spades, and of course the orchestral bits were very much sample-based.