Roger Wagner was a French-born American choral conductor, founder of the Roger Wagner Chorale and one of the leading figures in American choral performance.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in a 1960 programme of Walton, Bach and Vaughan Williams with the Roger Wagner Chorale and associated orchestral forces.

Wagner’s work was built on choral polish: blend, diction, rhythmic discipline and the ability to make large vocal textures sound precise without becoming mechanical.

His page is justified by the dedicated choral release. Wagner gives the American choral shelf a bright, disciplined centre.