What emotion is suggested in Chopin's 3rd Scherzo?

[punkpianist360]

Usually, I can decipher the mood of each piece, but with this one, it shifts moods so much that I can't formulate a specific feeling for it. 

Your help would be much appreciated, as it will help a lot with my performance!

[wildman]

I'm glad you seem to have taken inspiration from my thread title. 

Well the reason why I said "what emotion is suggested from Prokofiev's Suggestion Diabolique" is to add a humor of redundancy. I mean, why the hell did he name it "Suggestion Diabolique" anyway? What does this mean? "Suggest a diabolical plan"?

[retrouvailles]

I mean, why the hell did he name it "Suggestion Diabolique" anyway? What does this mean? "Suggest a diabolical plan"?

That title is the result of a loose translation. I have seen it translated a number of different ways, such as "Satanic Apparition" and "Diabolical Suggestion", among others. The real title is the Russian "Наваждение", which Google Translate translates as either "delusion" or "hallucination". Consider all of the English translations to be liberties that the editors took.

[scott13]

Usually, I can decipher the mood of each piece, but with this one, it shifts moods so much that I can't formulate a specific feeling for it. 

Your help would be much appreciated, as it will help a lot with my performance!

Why must a piece convey only one mood?

Take Chopin's Piano Concerto #1, or Ballade #1, or Op 10# 3, in fact you can really do this for all his works (testament to his genius) and decipher differing moods in them. Contrast is one of the crucial foundations of composition so there will always be contrasting emotion in music, a piece only conveying one mood for the entire duration would be dull. Even Bach has a huge range of emotions if single pieces.