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The ballet 'Whirls' (Pyörteitä) may not have been completed, but a Suite No. 1 and Suite No. 2 were extracted from the music and recorded by BIS - BIS CD 656 - by the Lahti SO under Osmo Vänskä. Actually my favourite opus by Klami. 

Or does your policy forbid you to list these? 

Freitas Branco and Lopes-Graco

Err, Fernando Lopes-Graça. 

It seems to me that van Gilse's Third must have something to divide opinion so.

What's dividing opinion is the quest for the Great Dutch Symphony...

I don't think there is one. But in terms of `national style', Zweers 3 and Dopper 7 would qualify. In terms of quality I would nominate Vermeulen 2, Pijper 2, Orthel 2, Fodor 3 perhaps. And special prizes for the (large) cycles by Badings and Röntgen.

At least Google translate managed to kill the Isle of the Dead. 

The real news being, of course, that there is a national anthem. 

It is helpful. The whole opus seems to have disappeared behind the horizon. :-)

According to The New Grove, the 'Sinfonia di lontano' (with an -o, not an -a, perhaps the search is hindered a bit by a typo?) is from 1963, between the Fifth and Sixth symphonies.

Other catalogues in the Internet, not only Wikipedia, mention the same title with the same year, e.g. http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/Gosta_Nystroem::sub::Chronological_Worklist

Just saying. 

And that case: why not try another Portuguese composer, Joly Braga Santos? He's not very unsung anymore, but still.

Sounds like António Teixeira (1707-c1759). Not that unknown a composer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Teixeira
The piece could be his Te Deum (c1734) that I have in a beautiful performance by The Sixteen, but there are many performances available: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_i_1?rh=k%3Aantonio+teixeira%2Ci%3Apopular&keywords=antonio+teixeira&ie=UTF8&qid=1334950202

admit to rather liking his music

Hi Elroel,

There are quite a lot of 'our kind' around here, even a couple of fellow Dutchmen with similar weird preferences. THE expert and Havergal Brian enthusiast is of course Johan Herrenberg, but there are more Dutchmen who share his enthusiasm. Johan and me actually met in London in 1995 in the course of a Havergal Brian festival organized by the Havergal Brian Society and have continued to meet since then. Some of us were active on another forum, but nowadays this one is the place to be.

I myself became an enthusiast for especially British and Scandinavion music in my teens, in the 1970s, and that's still my main focus. Composers like Vaughan Williams, Holst, Brian, Berkeley, Cooke, Bate, Arnold, Nielsen, Holmboe, Tubin and dozens more. I "discovered" most of them on Lyrita and other LPs available in a public library in Zwolle when I was sixteen and continued exploring with the help of the Amsterdam public library (Prinsengracht) as a student, often hiring LPs that I discovered twenty years later to have shared (unknowingly) with Johan Herrenberg (same age, similar preferences, also living in Amsterdam in the 1980s).

Great to meet you here! BW, Christo (Johan Snel)

CD1: Stanley Bate, Concerto Grosso, Harpsichord Concerto, Cello Concerto
CD2: Arnold Cooke, Symphonies 4, 5, 6
CD3: Ruth Gipps, Symphonies 3, 4, 5

Agreed. Yes, I wanted to mention Van Delden as well, realizing one second too late I hadn't. :-)