The three new releases include Gould's performance of excerpts from J.S. Bach's The Art of the Fugue (SMK 52595); the unreleased J.S. Bach recordings, which includes works by C.P.E. Bach and Domenico Scarlatti (SMK 52620); and chamber works by Shostakovich, Poulenc and Gould himself. All three new Gould Edition releases were released February 25, 1997.

Using Sony Classical's 20-bit Super-Bit-Mapping technology, the Glenn Gould Edition has restored the pianist's recorded legacy so successfully that Classic CD wrote, "Gould's recorded oeuvre may well be the single greatest musical monument of its kind this century." The German magazine FonoForum added, "The sonic restoration of these recordings provides near-audiophile quality... these discs sound great. Mono recordings from the 1950s sound as though they were made yesterday... The result, overall, is a big, wide-ranging sound; we seem much closer to the piano, and its tone has all the body and resonance of most recent recordings."

Gould's forays into the world of composition are sampled on the chamber-music disc, which features two of his works -- his "String Quartet No. 1" and his whimsical piece entitled So You Want to Write a Fugue? Recorded between 1960 and 1975, the disc also includes performances of portions of Dmitri Shostakovich's "Quintet for Two Violins, Viola, Cello and Piano" and Francis Poulenc's "Aubade - Choreographic Concerto for Piano and 18 Instruments". Joining Gould for these performances are soprano Elizabeth Benson-Guy, mezzo-soprano Anita Darian, tenor Charles Bressler, bass Donald Gramm, the Juilliard String Quartet, the Symphonia Quartet and conductors Vladimir Golschman and Boris Brott.