narration vs recounting

narration and recounting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
narration	Yes	No	No	No
recounting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, recounting is a hyponym of narration; that is, recounting is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than narration:

narration: the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
recounting: an act of narration

Other hyponyms of narration include relation, telling.

narration (noun)	recounting (noun)
the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events	an act of narration
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
(rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth