Parade of the Athletes is a retrospective mix by Dutch DJ
Tiësto of his live set performed during the opening ceremony of the
2004 Summer Olympic Games in
Athens,
Greece on 13 August 2004 (see
2004 in music).[4] This was the first time that a DJ was asked to perform for a ceremony at the Olympics. Recognizing one of their own, the
Dutch team came up to the booth while Tiësto was performing this set. All of the songs on this track are original songs composed by Tiësto except for "
Adagio for Strings", which is his 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 piece 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.
Parade of the Athletes is a retrospective mix by Dutch DJ
Tiësto of his live set performed during the opening ceremony of the
2004 Summer Olympic Games in
Athens,
Greece on 13 August 2004 (see
2004 in music).[4] This was the first time that a DJ was asked to perform for a ceremony at the Olympics. Recognizing one of their own, the
Dutch team came up to the booth while Tiësto was performing this set. All of the songs on this track are original songs composed by Tiësto except for "
Adagio for Strings", which is his 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 piece 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.