Quartets are frequently arranged for larger forces as a way to make their music better known to listeners that won’t listen to an actual quartet. The most successful of these arrangements, imo, is Barber Adagio For Strings. Also enjoyable are individual slow movements from. Tchaikovsky and Borodin quartets.
More controversial are arrangements of Beethoven and Shostakovich quartets. The aforementioned Grosse Fugue of Beethoven is fairly prevalent, and I have heard it twice in my concert going life. More controversial is Beethoven’s Op.131, which is his most wildly experimental work. Rudolf Barshai is a violist turned conductor who had worked closely with Shostakovich and made “chamber symphony “ arrangements of many of the Shostakovich quartets.
I actually enjoy hearing these arrangements but what gets lost for me is the sense of strain, of 4 instruments reaching for symphonic power. I also miss the special sonority of the solo instruments