All right this one is superb BUT its just on the verge of greatnest, like the pedro pascal meme, "Your composition is good, but it could be better." The composition is fantastique, the minimalist arrangement is great too, lovely chord progression. The court of flowers with the spiccato is provavly my favourite but I feel like this one can be pushed even harder with lots of stuff going on with woodwinds, maybe even some brass, it feels like this is an arrangement for a small quartet but sound like it could be way bigger. Zwiebel the Witch is a very cool piece, my only point is when the melody at 0:30 comes up with the celesta (or something similar) the harpsichord notes and the strings behind are clashing a bit so the melody lost all its presence, you'll need to either double it with something else, play with some panning a bit more or some dynamic EQ to let it pass through at this very moment. Great work it sounds very nice too in the mix. Whats your strings library CSS ?
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Thank you so much for this kind words and also for the advice. Maybe the minimalist approach was in some ways or parts a bit to much. I really wanted to cut the ensemble as small as possible, so Brass where cut right from the beginning. Also the Court of Flowers was supposed to work as an string quartet, but lacking some voices and oomph I kind of needed the extra bass and harp, so it got a sextet instead. I really need to learn to incorporate some other instruments more more subtle, so for example, like you said, the Court of Flowers would get some backing with other instruments but also keep its feeling of being mostly a string ensemble. I will try my best for coming projects and keep the advice in mind.
As for instruments: The strings are the Cremona quartet from Native Instruments (except for the bass of course) So they are all just solo instruments. Every other instrument is either from VSL Synchron line (like the woodwinds, harp and percussions) or from their Synchron-ized special editions (like the solo double bass, harpsichord and the recorder in Zwiebel).