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When scrolling though the mails of this thread, I did not find two IMO very good transcribtions:

- Tjaikovsky's "The seasons", arranged for orchestra by a sovjet-russian conductor. I have the whole suite on LP. Some of the pieces are very colorful with orchestra. But I personnaly like the paino version better

I scrolled so fast I did not at first read the first paragraph about the "Holberg suite". I agree it is better for orchestra.

The first movement Charles-Valentin Alkan's Concerto for Solo Piano Op. 39 No. 8 was orchestrated in 1872 by Karl Klindworth. People argue whether it did the original piece justice (I believe it did, and Alkan himself liked the orchestration), but even so I think it's a wonderful piece in its own right. Only the first movement was orchestrated, but the first movement is long enough to be a standalone piece. It's longer than the first movement of Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto!

It sounds like what Mozart would have composed if he lived in the Romantic Era.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRIpqMXVlMw

I like the orchestrated versions of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies better than the piano version: in fact, excerpts of it are on the lists for some instruments.