In honor of The Witcher's first season premiering on Netflix, IGN can exclusively debut one of the epic songs from the soundtrack: "The Song of the White Wolf," which you can listen to in our player below or at the top of the page ( also available on SoundCloud ), which has been composed and produced by Sonya Belousova (Dexter) and Giona Ostinelli (Homeland), and performed by Declan de Barra (Marvel's Iron Fist).

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When we chatted with Belousova and Ostinelli, they talked about the importance of keeping the tone of the music both modern and contemporary. "During our conversation with [showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich] it was very important for us to keep the Renaissance medieval aspect, but at the same time make the music very contemporary," Belousova told IGN. "So in order to do that, we recorded a lot of soloists, a lot of ensembles, and beyond that, we ordered a lot of different instruments that came to us literally from all over the world... I think we recorded over 64 instruments."The composers went on to say that they also wrote dances, as well as songs for Joey Batey's Jaskier -- Geralt's traveling musical companion -- who's also known as Dandelion in the video games and English translations of the novels. Looking ahead to Season 2 of The Witcher , we asked the composers if they had any interest in composing songs written in Elder Speech, which is a language from the books spoken by elves, mages, and other scholarly folks."We would definitely love to do something like that," Belousova said. "And you know, it's very interesting that you're bringing this up because actually that was one of the ideas we discussed with Lauren and that's something that we would definitely love to incorporate."For more on The Witcher, be sure to check out Henry Cavill discussing the common misconceptions about Geralt Freya Allan on how Ciri fits into the Season 1 storyline , our chat with David J. Peterson on how he created the "Elder Speech" language , or how magic works on the Continent

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