Ravi Shankar had numerous solo recordings published, including these:
Studio and live albums
- Three Ragas (1956)
- Music of India (1962)
- Improvisations (1962)
- In Concert (1962)
- Ravi Shankar (Odeon Records, India catalogue) (1963)
- India's Master Musician (1963)
- In London (1964)
- Ragas & Talas (1964)
- The Master Musicians of India (with Ali Akbar Khan) (1964)
- Portrait of Genius (1964)
- Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan (1965)
- Sound of the Sitar (1965)
- West Meets East with Yehudi Menuhin (also titled Menuhin Meets Shankar) (1967)
- In San Francisco (1967)
- The Exotic Sitar and Sarod (1967)
- Two Raga Moods (1967)
- Live: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival (1967)
- A Morning Raga / An Evening Raga (1968)
- The Sounds of India (1968)
- In New York (1968)
- West Meets East, Volume 2 with Yehudi Menuhin (1968)
- Music from India serie no.8 (1968)
- A Sitar Recital (1968)
- Ravi Shankar Improvisations & theme from Pather Panchali (1968)
- Ravi Shankar's Festival from India (1968)
- Ravi Shankar (1969)
- At the Woodstock Festival (1969)
- Music of India A Dhun and a Raga with Ali Akbar Khan (1969)
- Ravi Shankar Raga Parameshwari (1970)
- Six Ragas (1970)
- The Exciting Music of Ravi Shankar (1970)
- Four Raga Moods (1971)
- PBP Ravi Shankar and PBU Ahmedjan Thirakhwa (1971)
- Joi Bangla EP (1971)
- Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra with the London Symphony Orchestra and André Previn (1971)
- The Concert for Bangladesh (1971) – side one only, with Ali Akbar Khan
- The Genius of Ravi Shankar (1972)
- Ravi Shankar (1972)
- Ravi Shankar Ragas (1972)
- The Masters of Indian Music (1972) (double album with Ali Albar Khan)
- In Concert 1972 with Ali Akbar Khan (1973)
- Ragas with Ali Akbar Khan – contains The Master Musicians of India (1964) and the Ali Akbar Khan album The Soul of Indian Music (1965) (released as a double album in 1973)
- Shankar Family & Friends (1974) – available as part of Shankar and George Harrison box set Collaborations (2010)
- Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India (1976) – available as part of Collaborations box set (2010)
- Improvisations – West Meets East 3 – with Yehudi Menuhin and Jean-Pierre Rampal (1976)
- Ravi Shankar (1979)
- Shankar in Japan (1979)
- Jazzmine (1980) - with George Adams and others
- The Spirit of India (Deutsche Grammophon, 1980)
- Homage to Mahatma Gandhi (1981)
- Raga-Mala (Sitar Concerto No. 2) (1982)
- Raga Mishra Piloo: duet for sitar & sarod (1983) - with Ali Akbar Khan
- Pandit Ravi Shankar (1986)
- Tana Mana (1987)
- Ravi Shankar: the Doyen of Hindustani Music (1988)
- Inside the Kremlin (1988)
- Passages with Philip Glass (1990) (Atlantic Records)
- Concert for Peace: Royal Albert Hall (1995)
- Genesis (1995)
- Towards the Rising Sun (1996)
- Ravi Shankar: In Celebration (1996)
- Chants of India (1997) – available as part of Collaborations box set (2010)
- Raga Tala (1997)
- Shankar: Sitar Concertos and Other Works (1998)
- Shankar: Raga Jogeshwari (1998)
- Vision of Peace: The Art of Ravi Shankar (2000)
- Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 (2001)
- Between Two Worlds (documentary directed by Mark Kidel) (2001)
- Flowers of India (2007)
- More Flowers of India (2008)
- Collaborations box set, with George Harrison (2010)
- Symphony with London Philharmonic Orchestra and David Murphy (2012)
- The Living Room Sessions Part 1 (2012)
- The Living Room Sessions Part 2 (2013)
- A Night at St. John the Divine (2014)
- In Hollywood, 1971 (2016)
Film music
- Neecha Nagar (1946, directed by Chetan Anand)
- The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959, directed by Satyajit Ray)
- A Chairy Tale (1957, directed by Norman McLaren)
- Parash Pathar (1958, directed by Satyajit Ray)
- Anuradha (1960, directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee)
- Godaan (1963, directed by Trilok Jetley)
- Alice in Wonderland (1966, directed by Jonathan Miller) – composer of original score
- Chappaqua (1966, directed by Conrad Rooks)
- Monterey Pop (1968, documentary by D.A. Pennebaker)
- Charly (1968, directed by Ralph Nelson)
- Raga (1971, directed by Howard Worth)
- The Concert for Bangladesh by Saul Swimmer (1972) organized by George Harrison with Ravi Shankar
- Viola (1973, produced by R. Davis), British art film, soundtrack album: Transmigration Macabre, Spark Records SRLM 2002
- Forbidden Image (1974, directed by Jeremy Marre)
- Meera (1979, Directed by Gulzar)
- Gandhi (1982, directed by Richard Attenborough), (Academy Award nomination for Shankar and George Fenton)
- Genesis (1986)
- Concert for George (2003, directed by David Leland)