Pavanne - a score so big it cannot play back?

Here we are folks. A bit out of a score so large that I cannot get it to play back!

I have never tried to write for an orchestra before (have written for jazz and pop), so please be patient with any irregularities you find. Needless to say, I did not know that there was pretty much a standard lineup for an orchestra, so when I set about this score I just wrote for the instruments I thought would sound right. The end result is something that almost no orchestra would look at (according to a friend of mine), and probably would not sound all that good anyway.

In order to overcome this difficulty I have also made a pdf version with (mainly) no instrument names, and made the score and all parts available (free) for anyone who wants to give it a try at http://www.poffle.co.uk/common/Pavanne score and texts.html so that any group of 14 or more musicians ought to be able to play it - a scratch orchestra! Parts can be doubled, tripled or more, and transpositions for Eb and Bb instruments are there. There are also suggestions about how to get that tricky rhythm to work. One day I might manage to hear it myself.

I wrote the original of this in the 1980s, and it has been performed in various forms over the years. I think the most recent one recorded was live at the 100 Club 2008. This can be found somewhere on the internet as a video but I cannot remember where. There is also an audio version at http://www.myspace.com/peckhamcalypso and probably a few more.