| Title | Year | Label | Notes | References |
| Hermit Songs / String Quartet No. 1 | 1955 | Columbia Masterworks | This was an album featuring the music of Samuel Barber. Price performed the song cycle Hermit Songs with Barber at the piano. The album also included Barber's String Quartet No. 1 played by the Juilliard String Quartet. This was Price's first professional recording. | |
| A Program Of Song | 1959 | RCA Victor Red Seal | This recording was Price's first album as a solo artist, and was released in December 1959. A recital of German lieder and French chanson, it featured David Garvey as her accompanist. It won the 1961 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist. Price was also nominated that year for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist which she lost to Bob Newhart. | |
| Leontyne Price (also known as Operatic Arias) | 1961 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Price's self titled album Leontyne Price, often referred to as "the blue album", is also known as Operatic Arias. Contains arias from the operas Aida, Il trovatore, Madama Butterfly, La Rondine, Tosca, and Turandot. It was nominated for the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra). In 1998 RCA Living Stereo/BMG released a remastered version of the album under the title Leontyne Price: Verdi & Puccini Arias. | |
| A Christmas Offering (also known as Christmas with Leontyne Price) | 1961 | London Stereo | A Christmas album with Price singing mainly Christmas hymns with conductor Herbert von Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic. It was released in the United States under the title A Christmas Offering by London Stereo. In the United Kingdom it was released by Decca Records under the title Christmas with Leontyne Price. The album has been reissued multiple time; most recently in a remastered version by Decca in 2004. | |
| Leontyne Price – Swing Low, Sweet Chariot | 1962 | RCA Victor Red Seal | A recording of fourteen African American spirituals made with a studio orchestra conducted by Leonard De Paur. | |
| Great Scenes from Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" | 1963 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Excerpts of the opera Porgy and Bess. Price sang the role of Bess with her husband William Warfield as Porgy. Also included were the original Sportin' Life, John W. Bubbles, and McHenry Boatwright. It won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra). A remastered version was released by BMG in 1999. | |
| Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils/ Interlude and Final Scene The Egyptian Helen : Awakening Scene | 1965 | RCA Victor | Excerpts from the operas Salome and Die ägyptische Helena by Richard Strauss. Sung with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This recording won the 1966 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Classical Album of the Year. | |
| Leontyne Price / My Favorite Hymns | 1966 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Twelve hymns performed with organist George Decker and the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys of New York. The chorus was led by conductor William Self who was organist and choirmaster at Saint Thomas Church in Manhattan. | |
| Leontyne Price, Prima Donna: Great Soprano Arias from Purcell to Barber | 1966 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Studio recording of ten opera arias performed with the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra under the baton of conductor Francesco Molinari-Pradelli. This recording won the 1967 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra). | |
| Leontyne Price, Prima Donna/ Volume 2: Great Soprano Arias From Handel To Puccini | 1967 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Another studio recording performed with Francesco Molinari-Pradelli and RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra. This album contains nine opera arias. A compilation of both Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Prima Donna was also released in 1967. This recording won the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. | |
| Right As The Rain: Leontyne Price / André Previn | 1967 | RCA Victor Red Seal | An album of songs from Broadway musicals sung by Price with André Previn conducting the André Previn Orchestra. Previn also arranged and orchestrated the songs and played piano on the album. | |
| Samuel Barber: Two Scenes from "Antony and Cleopatra" / Knoxville: Summer of 1915 | 1969 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Thomas Schippers conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra with Price singing Samuel Barber's Two Scenes from "Antony and Cleopatra" and Knoxville: Summer of 1915. This recording won the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical. | |
| Leontyne Price Sings Mozart Operatic and Concert Arias | 1969 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Price sings a total of seven arias, both opera and concert, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Peter Herman Adler conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra. | |
| Leontyne Price, Prima Donna/ Volume 3: Great Soprano Arias From Gluck To Poulenc | 1970 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Sir Edward Downes conducts Price and the London Symphony Orchestra in fifteen opera arias. This recording was nominated for the 1971 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. | |
| Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free | 1971 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Price's second album of African American spirituals. These are performed with the Rust College Choir under the direction of Lassaye Van Buren Holmes. Proceeds for this album were given to fund scholarships to Rust College. | |
| Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann | 1971 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Pianist David Garvey accompanies Price in album dedicated entirely to the lieder of Robert Schumann. This recording won the 1972 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. | |
| 5 Great Operatic Scenes | 1972 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Price sings excerpts from La traviata, Eugene Onegin, Don Carlo, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Fidelio with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Fausto Cleva. This recording was nominated for the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. | |
| Leontyne Price – Puccini Heroines | 1973 | RCA Victor Red Seal | This album was recorded in London in 1972 and released by RCA in 1973. Price sings arias for several operas by Giacomo Puccini; including La bohème, Le Villi, Edgar, Manon Lescaut, Tosca, La Rondine, Madama Butterfly, and La fanciulla del West. Edward Downes conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra. It won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. | |
| Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss | 1974 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Price performs Four Last Songs, and excerpts from Die Frau ohne Schatten, Der Rosenkavalier, and Guntram with the New Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Erich Leinsdorf. It won the 1975 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. | |
| Weihnachtskonzert | 1974 | Decca Records | Price performs music by Giovanni Gabrieli, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the Vienna Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan. | |
| Verdi & Puccini Duets | 1975 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Nello Santi conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra in an album of opera duets by composers Verdi and Puccini which are sung by Price and tenor Plácido Domingo. It was nominated for the 1976 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. | |
| Leontyne Price: Portrait | 1976 | RCA | Francesco Molinari-Pradelli conducts the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Edward Downes the London Symphony Orchestra in this album of 19 opera arias. | |
| Leontyne Price, Prima Donna/ Volume 4: Great Soprano Arias From Mozart To Menotti | 1978 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Price sings eleven opera arias with the New Philharmonia Orchestra led by Nello Santi. | |
| Lieder by Schubert and Richard Strauss | 1979 | Angel Records | Price is accompanied by pianist David Garvey in an album of German lieder by Franz Schubert and Richard Strauss. It was nominated for the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. | |
| Leontyne Price, Prima Donna/ Volume 5: Great Soprano Arias From Handel To Britten | 1980 | RCA Victor Red Seal | Henry Lewis conducts Price and the New Philharmonia Orchestra in seven opera arias. It won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. | |
| Leontyne Price – Primadonna Assoluta | 1980 | Ullstein Musik | Oliviero De Fabritiis conducts Price and the Orchestra Del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in an album of Verdi arias. | |
| Leontyne Price Sings Verdi | 1981 | London Records | Price sings Verdi arias with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta. The recording won the 1983 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. | |
| God Bless America | 1982 | RCA | Charles Gerhardt conducts Price and the National Philharmonic Orchestra in an album of predominantly American patriotic songs. The recording was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance. | |
| Noël – Noël | 1983 | Decca Records | Charles Dutoit leads Price and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in this album of Christmas music using arrangements by Arthur Harris. The recording was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance. | |
