recounting vs narration

recounting and narration both are nouns.

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

As nouns, narration is a hypernym of recounting; that is, narration is a word with a broader meaning than recounting:

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

Other hypernyms of recounting include recital, yarn.

recounting (noun)	narration (noun)
an act of narration	the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
	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