recounting vs recital

recounting and recital both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of recounting include narration, yarn.

recounting (noun)	recital (noun)
an act of narration	the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
	a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
	performance of music or dance especially by soloists
	a detailed account or description of something