Klaus Storck

Klaus Storck (11 February 1928 – 18 March 2011 ) was a German cellist who appeared internationally as soloist and chamber musician. He also edited music for cello. He often appeared in a duo with his wife, the harpist Helga Storck, and composers wrote music for them. he studied there with Rudolf Metzmacher. From autumn 1946, Storck studied at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold with Hans Münch-Holland. Storck's first recording of Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata on original instruments, with Alfons Kontarsky playing hammerflügel, received special international attention. His chamber music activities have included duos with his wife, the harpist Helga Storck. inspiring composers such as Harald Genzmer to write music for them. He played with pianist Aya Ishihara, and formed the Klaviertrio Alfons Kontarsky, a piano trio with Alfons Kontarsky and violinist Saschko Gawriloff.

Storck also worked as an editor of compositions for cello, and wrote an arrangement of the Arpeggione Sonata for cello and piano, published by Bärenreiter.

Storck was a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover and the Musikhochschule München, One of his sons is the surgeon and violist .

Storck died in Katowice at the age of 83. His grave is located at the Cologne South Cemetery (Flur 43).

Recordings

Vivaldi: Concerto in C minor, RV 434 (with Kammerorchester Emil Seiler, conducted by W. Hofmann), Archiv-Produktion 198 318 (1962) C. Ph. E. Bach: Concerto in A minor, Wq 170 (with the Berliner Kammermusikkreis, conducted by M. Lange), Deutsche Grammophon 135 033 (1963) Brahms: Trio für Klavier, Klarinette und Cello, Op. 114 (with pianist Detlef Kraus and clarinetist Jost Michaels) Musicaphon 30 L 1522 (1963)

Kagel: Match für 3 Spieler (with Siegfried Palm and Christoph Caskel), Deutsche Grammophon 137 006 (1968)

Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata (with Alfons Kontarsky, Hammerflügel), Archiv-Produktion 2533 175 (1974) Dvořák and Janáček, Complete Works for Cello and Piano (with Karl Engel), Telefunken 6.42038 (1977)

Tadeusz Baird: Szenen für Cello, Harfe und Orchester (with Helga Storck), Polska Nagranie MUZA SX 1615 (1980) Virtuose Gesellschaftsmusik für Harfe und Violoncello ca. 1800 (with Helga Storck), Telefunken SLT 43 109-B (1993)

Robert Schumann: Complete Works for Violoncello and Piano (with Aya Ishihara, 2010)