The three new releases include Gould's performance of excerpts from J.S. Bach's The Art of the Fugue; 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 (SMK 52679). 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 performances here of excerpts from Bach's The Art of the Fugue are drawn from three different recording sessions, in 1962, 1967 and 1974. The disc also includes a 1980 recording of the "Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major" on the name BACH, BWV 898, released for the first time in any format.