Wild recorded for Ivory Classics. Under his teacher Selmar Janson, Wild had learned Xaver Scharwenka's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, which Janson had studied directly with the composer, his own teacher. When, over 40 years later, Erich Leinsdorf asked Wild to record the concerto, he was able to say "I've been waiting by the phone for forty years for someone to ask me to play this". In 1997, he was the first pianist to stream a performance over the Internet. Wild, who was openly gay, lived in Columbus, Ohio, and Palm Springs, California, with his domestic partner of 38 years, Michael Rolland Davis. He was also an atheist. He died aged 94 of congestive heart disease at home in Palm Springs. Harold C. Schonberg called him a "super-virtuoso in the Horowitz class". Wild's memoirs A Walk on the Wild Side were published posthumously by Ivory Classics. Discography Earl Wild at 30 – Live Radio Broadcasts from the 1940s (Ivory Classics) Frédéric Chopin: The Ballades (Concert Hall, 1951) Earl Wild plays Gershwin (Coral) Walter Piston: Piano Quintet (WCFM, 1953) George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris (RCA Victor, 1960) George Gershwin: Piano Concerto; 'I Got Rhythm' Variations (RCA Victor, 1962) Franz Liszt: Piano Extravaganzas On Operatic Themes (RCA Victor, 1962) The Virtuoso Piano (Vanguard Classics, 1964) The Fire and Passion of Spain (RCA, 1965) Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 1–4; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Reader's Digest, 1966, later RCA and Chesky, now Chandos Records) Sergei Rachmaninoff / Zoltán Kodály: Cello Sonatas (Nonesuch, 1967) The Demonic Liszt (Vanguard Classics, 1968) Xaver Scharwenka: Works for Piano and Orchestra (RCA, 1969) Ignacy Paderewski: Piano Concerto (RCA, 1971) Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1; Hungarian Fantasy (His Master's Voice, 1973) Peter Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (RCA, 1976) Edward MacDowell: Piano Concerto (Quintessence, 1977) Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 (RCA, 1977) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Music for two pianos (RCA Red Seal, 1978) Music by César Franck, Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Ravel (Audiofon, 1982) The Art Of The Transcription • Live From Carnegie Hall (Audiofon, 1982) Earl Wild Plays Liszt (The 1985 Sessions) (Ivory Classics, 2001) Franz Liszt: Sonata In B Minor / Polonaise No. 2 / Etudes De Concert / Transcendental Etudes / Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos 4, 12 & 2 (Etcetera, 1986) Earl Wild Plays Beethoven (dell'Arte, 1986) Gabriel Fauré: Cello Sonatas (dell'Arte, 1986) Franz Liszt: Transcriptions &