Parade of the Athletes own remix of Samuel Barber's piece by the same name (the remix was also influenced by William Orbit's original electronic remix of the song in 1999), and "Athena", which is also a remix of Adagio in G minor, a piece often attributed to Tomaso Albinoni, but actually composed by Remo Giazotto. The album contains 8 new tracks composed exclusively for the Olympic Games Athens 2004 Opening Ceremony, and 4 other well-known tracks ("Traffic", "Lethal Industry", "Adagio for Strings" and "Forever Today"). An unmixed version was also released. Parade of the Athletes Parade of the Athletes is a retrospective mix by
Adagio for Strings radio interview about it with WQXR and said, "They always play that piece. I wish they'd play some of my other pieces." In 2004, listeners of the BBC's "Today" program voted "Adagio for Strings" the "saddest classical" work ever, ahead of "Dido's Lament" from "Dido and Aeneas" by Henry Purcell, the Adagietto from Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony, "Metamorphosen" by Richard Strauss, and "Gloomy Sunday" as sung by Billie Holiday. In 2006 a recorded performance by the London Symphony Orchestra was the highest-selling classical piece on iTunes. The musicologist Bill McGlaughlin compares its role in American music to the role that