This charming little piece for solo violoncello was originally written as a present for a young violin pupil. It is well suited as an encore piece. The imploring and archaic-daring dance offers the performers all sorts of effective possibilities to shine in disciplines such as sense of rhythm, verve, agogics and attack. Penderecki created this energetic piece which can be placed somewhere between arabesque, character piece and study and in which one thinks to hear flashes of Bach and Shostakovich.