Yo thanks Metko, I tried my best to tie all the tracks together whether through instrumentation, mixing elements or motifs so I appreciate you noticing that and glad you really enjoyed. Interesting haha, I started with the pastoral one! Of course, always up for talking about mixing/VSTs - for the choir, I used both the stock pro tools choir and the Epic Originals Choir from Spitfire (it's very cheap!) and then to make it sound a bit more real, it was a case of playing around with release and reverb, and blending with eq etc. I'd say the main things were using quite atmospheric verbs to give them a bit of sheen, and for the choir stabs in the third track I used transient shapers and compression to just make them hit a bit more.
For strings, I pretty much exclusively used spitfire stuff, a mixture of Spitfire symphony orchestra, i think I used albion colossas in places, and then a bit of symphony essentials. Spitfire stuff is rly good, but I'm noticing it's got quite a distinct sound, which is good but also I find makes it quite hard to blend together.
Thanks again for comments, glad you liked it!