Time out for the 80-minute Turangalîla Symphony, Olivier Messiaen’s “love song, hymn to joy, time, movement, rhythm, life and death.” (The title is cobbled together from bits of Sanskrit.) Inspired by the myth of Tristan and Isolde, Messiaen’s only work in the symphonic genre was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky, legendary music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in memory of his wife. Of course, Koussevitzsky intended to conduct the premiere, but he fell ill and the honor devolved to the 31-year-old Leonard Bernstein, the ideal interpreter. Is it fanciful to suppose that the saturated Old World sound of the Vienna Philharmonic, jazzed off by the now 64-year-old Esa-Pekka Salonen’s enduring youthful spark, will result in a performance much in the spirit of the first? —Matthew Gurewitsch